Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading a weather report, stuck a piece of paper in his typewriter and wrote: "Today is a nice day." This got into the paper, and next thing the Telegram's city room knew, people were calling up to offer congratulations. Since then the World-Telegram has run a gag story on the weather every two or three days, and they have become the big town's richest newspaper chuckle. Sample...
Wheaties' style of reporting ("Crack! A hot liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary...
...best romantic version are Author Bernard's descriptions of Tibet-a more spectacular Arizona-and of magnificent Tibetan handicraft and art works. But even realists are likely to gag at his matter-of-fact details of Tibetan life: of monks who take special pride in a lifetime's grime that encrusts their golden robes; of communal toilets in open streets; of Tibetan burials, in which corpses are coiled as at birth, then hacked to pieces and fed to vultures...
...Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which he held for a decade. In 1933 he went to Paramount, earned a place as one of the industry's top-notch directors with Ruggles of Red Gap, Make Way for Tomorrow. In 1937 The Awful Truth won him the Academy Prize...
...haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley." (As Andy) "I thought dat was a pretty good gag." (As Amos) "Yes, but didn' you know de perisphere was empty...