Word: wags
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...Dogs wag their tails and fawn...
...passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
...wrote a wag when Emil Fuchs had been chosen to draw King Edward for a postage-stamp design. The verse, the stamp, are reproduced in a book* of Herr Fuchs' reminiscences...
...John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, flatly refused a request of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio coal operators for a meeting to discuss a downward revision of the existing wag? scale. "Nonunion competition is driving us out of business," said operators. "Anything but wage-reduction," said Mr. Lewis, in effect...
...Harding, during his campaign in 1920, announced that he would, if elected, invite Governor Coolidge to sit in the Cabinet. Some 7,000.000 votes decided that Vice President Coolidge should do so, and he did. So the precedent was set. Now it seems ready to be broken. Political tongues wag: "Let me see-it was August when General Dawes visited President Coolidge at Plymouth. The campaign was just beginning. They certainly must have been sure of election to begin discussing such details that early. "And why do you suppose General Dawes spoke up and said he didn't want...