Word: gaga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most famous scat skit is Melody in 4-F, the gaga saga of a G.I. which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
...auction his influential collection of modern, mostly French art. The 1019 items offered at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries put a total of $181,747 into "Crownie's" elegantly tailored pocket and the event itself had the quality of social luster, with a note of high gaga, which he dearly loves...
Philosophy and psychology are essentials to a clown, according to Pearce. In his own words: "You have to size up the audience and work them into the right mood, or else the gaga fall flat. That is an art which most persons don't recognize in a performer. And one thing about clown gags, they never grow...
Snorted Isolationist Wheeler: "One can probably excuse Secretary Stimson on the ground of his age and incapacity. Everyone . . . knows that the old gentleman is unable to carry on the duties of his office and some go so far as to say that ... he is gaga. ... If it is near treason to ask the President to keep his sacred promises . . . then ... I am guilty of 'near treason," whatever that may be." He admitted that 1,000,000 cards had been sent out under his Congressional frank, declared that: 1) the America First Committee had paid for the printing...
Cook Book, like Joe Cook's imagination, often detoured around established facts, but it got the idea of Cook's gaga saga across. In Evansville, Ind., in the 'gos, the boy Joe was balked from joining the circus and talked his mother into electric-lighting the Cook barn so Joe could give a show there. The Cook home itself had only gas. Joe grew to be the only claimant of 18-ball juggling and had a picture of himself doing it, the balls suspended by invisible wires. When he began talking on stage as he talked...