Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brother (Harold Lloyd). Great dark houses crashed and rocked with laughter last week. Funnyman Lloyd is loose again. Before permitting himself to be released Mr. Lloyd always examines his gag staff* to be sure no drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts...
...gag" is to cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
...inconsistency he purports to base his appeal in part on the conviction that American sentiment is united in support of the government's policy although the reason for his appeal is the opposition to this policy in a large part of the press. Clearly the real purpose is to gag an opposition which is becoming increasingly embarrassing in the pursuit of the highly questionable action toward Nicaragua and Mexico...
...assassin!" Calm, Premier Poincaré avoided an ''international incident" by pretending that the remark had been addressed to himself. Said he: "We are used to being called names by M. Vaillant Couturier." When the other five-minute harangues were over the Premier moved cloture. . . . Would the Chamber gag itself at his command and get down to business...
...worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode. Manager Wiley was inevitably destined by nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short...