Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild spender. He shoveled money around like snow, ostentatiously picked up the tab at parties and restaurants, jazzed around town in a new $3,500 Oldsmobile convertible. When his friends asked him where he was getting all his cash, John always brightly shot back that old gag, "I robbed a bank." It was great for laughs...
...book follows the original's satiric story line but kills its spirit by relentless pursuit of the obvious gag, the single entendre, the rhyme-at-any-cost; e.g., "The air is full of your infidelities," sings Juno. "No? The hell it is," rhymes Jupiter in one of the better couplets. And so it goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete...
Turbulent, Turgid. As an elaborate gag, Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list...
...have always liked the gag that was circulated during Truman's Administration, to wit: George Washington couldn't tell a lie, Franklin Roosevelt couldn't tell the truth and Truman couldn't tell the difference. And now, the Democrats have decided to Adalai! Apparently the sly manipulations of Roosevelt, the scandals of the Truman Administration and the horsemeat outrages in Illinois when Stevenson was governor are considered by the Democrats to be of little or no consequence...
...battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution." For six years Minton had a place in the vanguard of the New Deal extremists and fought especially hard on behalf of F.D.R.'s plan to pack the Supreme Court. He even introduced a bill to gag the press by imposing a $1,000 to $10,000 fine for printing what he called "a fact known to be false...