Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gag issue of the "Varsity" satirized the Student Council, university president Dr. Sidney Smith, certain professors, and the university in general. The main story in the issue, headed "Remedial Sex Compulsory, SAC Finances Field Work," was allegedly a satire on Smith's annual report, which dealt with remedial English...
Affairs of State combines a small cast and a single gag with intermittent sprinklings of comedy, farce, and epigrams. June Havoc carries off very well the lead role, created by Celeste Holm. She and Shepperd Strudwick alone manage to give variety to their parts without sacrificing consistency...
...bonus, this recent announcement should also gag local sportswriters who have been clamoring for a formal New England League with Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth playing B.U., B.C., and Holy Cross. There would be little room at present for all of these schools on all-Ivy schedules and furthermore the Ivy policy itself would probably appear too sugar-coated for these gate-receipt, publicity conscious colleges...
...movie's handling of child behavior, though too glib and sometimes doubtful, is unusually sound for a Hollywood film, fairly free of obvious tearjerking, and shrewdly balanced with comedy. Deft writing and acting freshen even so ancient a running gag as the one about the married couple forever thwarted from going to bed together. As knowing in audience psychology as in child psychology, Room for One More rises above such lapses as treating an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with the solemnity of a coronation, or allowing the struggling, hard-pressed Roses to live in a house that...
...Knowing the gag issue was to be published, the editors attempted to steal its thunder by announcing plans Thursday to print a facsimile of its old rival, "The Journal...