Word: gaggingly
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...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...
Almost as if the promoters could not quite count on their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome...
...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...
...Marie is breaking her engagement and Hope is walking off, not only with the girl, but with the boy and dog as well. Bob breezes amiably through this pastiche, firing off salvos of one-line jokes, mugging happily, and milking his nervous stomach and faint heart for every sight gag possible. Eva Marie Saint is mostly limited to wearing high-fashion clothes and looking elegant, but, in the drunk scene, she exhibits a comedy talent of her own-especially in a Groucho-like gallop that definitely hits the Marx...