Word: waggish
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There have been more elegant descriptions of the gaudy, gawky new flying machines called ultralight aircraft, but none more accurate than this waggish observation. The plane that sounds like a low-calorie beer does resemble a plastic -and video-age version of the Kitty Hawk. Or, as a Tolkienian might put it, a petroleum-feeding pterodactyl. In any case, the planes are designed not to lodge beauty in the eye of the earth-bound beholder but, rather, to warm the soul of the seat-of-the-pants pilot. Put-putting along a few hundred feet up at 40 m.p.h...
...campaign. The contenders first met in 1978, when Dornan beat Peck by only 2% of the vote. Some waggish voters are calling this contest Jaws II. Peck has been aided by such celebrities as Walter Matthau, Helen Reddy and Lily Tomlin; Dornan is relying on contributions from conservatives, plus the help of right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, to match Peck...
...Chaplin's The Great Dictator; of complications of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Abandoning a Wall Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate ogler, Oakie could steal...
...should fight for the canal if necessary. But the Viet Nam years have taught me that we wouldn't. So we might as well hand it over." During his California senatorial campaign, Hayakawa quipped: "We stole it fair and square." He now insists that he was only being waggish. He thinks the agreement is fair and square...
...Hagen, by the time the Open was held at Brae Burn, he had emerged from being golf's enfant terrible to Sir Walter, the liege lord of the game. Hagen was already displaying the waggish bravura that made him a gallery idol when he showed up for his first Open in 1913 at Brookline, the Crimson's home course. The Haig wore a garrish bandana tied cowboy style, a striped silk shirt, a plaid Scottish cap, and his wide laced brogans with the tongue moddishly doubled back over the instep...