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Word: gagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plugs for Sponsor Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations"), her weakness for clipping her boxwood hedge with George's electric razor. In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding. In desperation, he wired Gracie: "Can't you make a living any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Burns Without Allen | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...were fun. When Borge showed a picture of his Pontiac. it turned out to be a mound of snow. "The bad thing, of course," he confided, "is that my wife is still in it." As always, he wrapped up the show with a farewell line gilding sentiment with a gag: "When a hand comes out and wipes away a tear, that's my reward. The rest goes to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...third period. Navy End Pete Jokanovich leaned across the line and made a startling offer to Rice End Gene Jones: "Hey, kid, you want a ticket to the game?" In Jokanovich's grimy fist were two tickets for the Cotton Bowl. His gag had a sharp point. Jones was in the Cotton Bowl, but his team was hardly in the ball game. Cool, cocky Navy did not take Rice seriously, and did not need to. Middie Quarterback Tom Forrestal, playing his last game, put on a deft lesson in the tactics of offensive warfare. Sharp-eyed while the Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Well Bowled | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Thus, on Dallas' WFAA last week, began the kind of candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Confession | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Police have claimed that Thompson would have been shot if the officers at the scene had been able to clear the crowd. "This was not a gag," said Acting Chief Richard J. Linehan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Prank Draws $35 Fine | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

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