Word: gaggingly
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...doing 22 shows a week, a mark he broke only during the war. As a master sergeant in the Armed Services Radio, he handled 120 shows at once and found time, during a furlough, to marry Cathy Lewis (a mutual friend had thought it a good gag to introduce them because they had the same last names...
Comment around the University was varied. Some thought it a "great gag." Other refused to believe the stunt had actually happened...
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...