Word: waggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rusty (Joan Bennett) and Charlie (Gary Grant) would have been married if Charlie had not tried to be too funny with the marriage-bureau clerk. Rusty's way of revealing that her sensibilities have been hurt is thereafter to outgag the waggish Charlie. Rusty cheats Charlie out of a vacation. He retaliates by taking over the city desk, making himself unpleasant to his onetime colleagues. Rusty hires the world's most obnoxious office boy to annoy him, has his office painted in zebra stripes. Heartbroken when he hears she is to marry Roger Dodacker. success story writer (Conrad...
...Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being run off as the regular edition, a hoax on Brown which evoked even more mirth. An Englishwoman, the Great Khan...
...jungle adventures of animal-catching vary from the grim struggle of a black leopard with a fifteen-foot python to the more humorous clowning of waggish gibbons that were caught early in the picture to stage wrestling bouts for the duration of the film. The high spots in the process of rounding up the "wild cargo" are probably the captures of an albino water buffalo and a real man-eating tiger, who, if we may take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America...
...other blossom-time duty the President took care of: he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner postponed until his return. Notable sketch provided by waggish newshawks: Vice President Garner in the role of Mark Antony reciting...
ANITRA'S DANCE-Fannie Hurst-Har-per ($2.50). "The world wagged. Sophie wagged. Waxman wagged. How furiously it all wagged and wagged." With such arrestingly waggish words Author Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) this week slapped down the first course of her latest table d'hote, Anitra's Dance. Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will. His nose immediately told him that here was another full-fleshed Hurstwurst, stuffed to bursting point, garnished with garlic, well-lapped in rich gravy. Critics...