Word: waggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving the set where he was at work with luscious Hedy Lamarr, he journeyed to San Diego with the woman he loves. Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn 31 years ago, divorced three years ago from waggish Frank Fay, is a man's woman who is best in roles like the saucy Irish engineer's daughter she plays in Union Pacific. Filed three days in advance, as California law requires, the names of S. Arlington Brugh and Ruby Stevens attracted no notice. The nervous bridegroom about to break millions of feminine hearts kept a nervous justice...
...public library offered an unusual exhibition by a gifted man who calls himself a "tramp printer." It will be shown later in New England, Midwest and Far West cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and some 400 other books to waggish menus, from paintings to a "No Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing and printing what Frank Lloyd Wright is to architecture...
...light-filled colors. In several of them 30-year-old Artist Glassgold got away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...
...That Glitters is a waggish yarn about the peccadillos of Manhattan bluebloods and, according to rumor, based on fact. Playboy Muggy Williams swears to nail Mrs. Townsend's hide to his barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces...
Included among the many previous and much-disputed suggestions for utilization of this available University floorspace was one for the creation of a beer garden to rival Eliot House's night lunch and a waggish notion that "Illuminated students be hung out for decoration...