Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stock vaudeville gag for 25 years because of its funny Indian name, the little city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...nothing new for artists to fake antiques. Nor is it new for confidence men to take in wealthy suckers by posing as artists. But in France and in Lexington, Ky. last week two extraordinarily clever fakers provided two new twists to an old gag...
...doctrines--no matter what "ism" is represented. After the lesson in public relations it has been taught in the last few weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary, but a more careful tone of voice, for complete political freedom is an idyllic and troublesome standard for Harvard in a city which takes such a literal interpretation of a liberal educational creed as does Cambridge...
...Kraft Music Hall program has the reputation of going to considerable lengths for a gag. Not long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...
...Phoney Ozies think up a better gag. TIME'S correspondent can find no Ozies at No. 4 Brattle St., no Ozies in Cambridge...