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Word: gagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts" and "I'll Say She Is", and, wonderful to relate, it is just about as effective as it was in either of these preceding masterpieces. For example Harpo blows the same smoke bubbles; makes the same faces; goes through the same antics; and plays...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Most disappointing of all to the Roving Reporter was to hear that same old gag which he first heard as a freshman. Someone asked for the dean. The time-worn Spoonerism offered in reply was "The bean is dizzy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

Fascists dismissed for scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Scandal After Birthday | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Sanger attended the dinner of the Ford Hall Forum to Liberals last month with a gag over her mouth, evidence of the ban which the Boston police force has placed on her lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MRS. SANGER WILL SPEAK AT LIBERAL CLUB MEETING | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference so far as to label a bank loan Credit and a corporation loan Capital is a point upon which many a banker would gag, sputter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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