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Word: gagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood of gentle nostalgia after last year's World Series had been stowed away in the record books. "I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Lot of Laughs | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Slasher," a fine comic heavy (Robert Strauss) who gnaws at his lines as if they were ripe black betel nuts. The whole thing is unfortunate for Singer Rosemary Clooney, who is still new to pictures. Almost every time she opens her mouth to sing, Hope shoves a gag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Facing the Music | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Hondo (Warner) is a western that has provoked a gag question in Hollywood: "Ain't it a Shane about Wayne?" The answer is: yes, sort of. The movie starts off looking like Shane by introducing the hero (John Wayne) as Shane was introduced-staggering out of the desert like a gun-slinging anchorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rough on the Redskins | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

When copies were brought to the Yale Club, the guard thought it a gag and refused to give them out. But residents of the Harvard Club eagerly gobbled up copies. Crimeds also placed copies at other crucial points around the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors Give Paper to N.Y., Truman | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...public following was showing its sympathies, and the government was sorry that it had ever decided to try the old man publicly. Mossadegh vowed to take a whole month in his rebuttal; wearily the court decided to sit once a day instead of twice. In the end, went the gag around Teheran, the five military judges will throw themselves on the mercy of the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Mooooo! | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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