Word: wags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoals gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...
Asked a Wall Street wag: "Did you hear about the lucky Texas oilman? He was drilling on his property and struck coffee." Last week General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House) and Standard Brands Inc. (Chase & Sanborn) each boosted the wholesale price of coffee again (to $1.11 a lb.), and new retail rises of 3? to 10? were on the way. People were getting used to gyrations of the jumping coffee bean...
...Leonard E. Loos, principal of the Euclid (Ohio) Shore Junior High School, complained that schoolteachers as pictured on TV are lowering academic prestige. Said Principal Loos: "How often are a pupil's reactions based on the feeling that his teacher is a scatterbrained Mr. Peepers ... or an irrepressible wag like Our Miss Brooks...
...honor the 36th anniversary of the October revolution, almost all of the Soviet bigwigs-with the exception of Malenkov himself-and hundreds of lesser wigs gathered with members of Moscow's foreign diplomatic corps. As the evening wore on and tongues loosened by vodka and champagne began to wag more freely, the Westerners were able to get a significant insight into the frictions chafing the present sons of the revolution...
...troubles. He must, of course, be dedicated to the republican principle, in good health, intelligent and tactful, not too young or too old, with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone...