Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blot looked back at the galleys of the story, wondered if Neihbur was the right spelling, didn't know, decided to leave it. As he thumbed through the galleys, he noticed N. Pettit's name upside-down on the masthead, thought it would be a good gag to leave...
...there an additional reason, then, which might justify the military's action? If its campaign had anything to do with producing good officers, for instance, there would be less reason to gag publicly. But it doesn't. ROTC directives, strongly suggesting that cadets wear uniforms when they give blood, indicate the military's purpose clearly enough. The assignment of special ROTC solicitors to ROTC candidates is also revealing, as are the other small inducements the units have worked...
...Producer George (Tonight We Sing) Jessell, always ready with a gag, cracked: "I predict that one year from now the studios will be making nothing but glasses...
...plug to someone else in return for an electrical bicycle pump just plain isn't honest." But Quinn has been unable to get the Radio Writers' Guild or his advertising agency to share his indignation. And he concedes that policing the practice is nearly impossible: "Inevitably, a gag will occur that names a national product. You'd be silly not to use it if it helps the show. Then if they want to give you a piece of the Hope diamond out of gratitude, you'd be silly not to accept...
...Eliot's cocktail-party frivolities have real emblematic force, much that is entertaining in I've Got Sixpence goes out too directly for laughs. In an extremely serious scene where the writer describes how his publishers have turned down his manuscript, he intrudes such a pure theatrical gag as: "They said it was very well typed"; and for no reason except that it is always surefire with the gallery, there is an incidental crack about Gertrude Stein...