Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
Besides baseball, there were fireworks, blaring bands, clowns, bike riders, tightrope walkers balancing above the heads of bleacher fans, a ballpark nursery where mothers could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
Ogle never did find out whether the call was a gag or the real thing...
...spark of what this Life Gag...
Field's new toned-down look for the morning Sun-Times has already kicked up an office gag: "Now we won't have rape for breakfast any more. Just for supper...