The use of chewing gum in this way was also a 'wonderfully naughty act' or an attitude against appropriate education.
There was pushing, the grabbing of face masks, and other naughty acts.
In the distant year of 1974, when "Bad Habits" made its hilarious New York debut, the characters' vices of chain smoking, high-cholesterol gluttony, martini guzzling and sexual adventurism were regarded more as amusingly naughty acts of rebellion, however self-destructive, than as one-way tickets to the grave.
(Not to be confused with the naughty acts she writes about, of course).
Dancing became a naughty and spontaneous act for the drunken and daring, performed atop cocktail tables and on banquettes.
A: (Stuart Elliott) Naughty, naughty, dear reader.
Just For Laughs Chicago runs June 12-17 this year and features live stand-up comedy and sketch performances, musical comedy acts, a naughty improv puppet show, Mike Birbiglia's off-Broadway hit "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," a Q&A with Kevin Smith and "more surprises" to be announced.
As he leans back with his feet on the heavy wooden desk used for work and study by centuries of clerics, he suddenly freezes, like a naughty schoolboy caught in the act, pulling a fag from his mouth and rearranging himself into a more respectable posture.
Taller than everyone else, he has the bearing of a man conscious of having performed an act of shining virtue, a good deed in a naughty world.
He was a little bit of a naughty boy.
