Word: gag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President and the Senator from Alabama would substitute for free speech here a gag rule that would be more intolerable than any tyranny ever manifested in any legislative body on this earth...
...Young with his tongue in his foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired...
...armor. He can fall back upon figures for the profession--law, medicine, education, even business, then upon literature, although best not in the presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every man in the boat except number six and the stroke...
There were fewer gondolas and less dancing by the Venetian lagoons, than in the productions sponsored by the late Sir Herbert Tree and E. H. Sothern. The Manhattan babittry did not appear to mind, however, and laughed loudly at the perennial valid gag: "It's a wise son who knows his own father...
Charlie is a finished director, a tragic, sympathetic, little actor, and a very great genius in his way. Syd is a funny man, and after you have said that you have said everything. Admittedly he has no further ambition than to make his public laugh. He is a gag man, a female impersonator, and somewhat of a slap-stick clown. In no wise does he resemble brother Charles...