Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what are the faculties going to do about it? Gag the the college press, or formulate a rule of "nil nisi bonum do doetribus," and the self-sufficient young college man will at once assume the dignity of a martyr, and then there is no telling what bad thing may happen. Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...
...sweet way. It began by asking what right 3,000,000 Fascisti had to claim that they represented a politically organized nation of 40,000,000 people. "If, as Mussolini says," the newspaper continued, "the discontented are but a small group, why is it necessary to gag the press, forbid free speech, forbid public meetings and arm the executive with arbitrary and irresponsible powers? We believe Mussolini sincerely and earnestly desires the welfare of Italy. We are convinced this policy is not in the long run the way to promote...
...Labor amendment to the budget was defeated, 331 to 139. A lively discussion between ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald and Premier Stanley Baldwin preceded the vote, after which closure (of debate) was moved amid cries of: ''Gag"; and the finance bill of the year was read and carried (as above) for a second time...
...evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor. The professor shouted: "Keep your mouth open." Vapor began to issue in immense, frothy clouds from this orifice. Sceptic Phillips recovered...