Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maybe I'm oversimplifying," said the tape recorder calmly, "I get quite a kick out of this oversimplifying gag." Complete silence followed for a minute...
Paramount's sharpest ballyhoo experts descended last week on unsuspecting Bellaire, Ohio (pop. 12,500) to case the town for the year's corniest movie publicity gag. By the studio's reckoning, Bellaire's Mrs. Anne Kuchinka had beaten out more than 250,000 letter-writing contestants in persuading Paramount to stage the opening of its latest Bob Hope picture, My Favorite Spy, in her modest living room. Subject of her winning letter: how her husband paid for his dentistry education by working in a glass factory. On Nov. 27, while searchlights sweep the grateful Ohio...
There was something more than just the ordinary Cantab loss in 1926, however. A Lampoon parody of a Crimson football extra carried a gag story of Tiger Coach Roper's death on the field. Lampy's exuberance helped to bring an already acid relationship with Princeton to a break which lasted eight years...
...appear on the campus must be cleared in advance by President Howard L. Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped on a gag rule that would make any speaker worth his salt or his honorarium steer clear of the Ohio campus...
Protest by Ohio State students and faculty may force the University's board of trustees to revise a recently instituted "gag rule" at a meeting today...