Word: gaggingly
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...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...
According to Jordan, what actually happened was that "the photographers wanted me to pose with Charlie for a gag type picture. I told them I had too much respect for the Harvard squad to do anything like that, but I'd be happy to pose for a conventional shot with Charlie, with my arm around his shoulder, 'as though he were...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...despite the gag overtones, the pointlessness of parallelism, and the dubious ethics involved in pillaging the HYDC's treasury, Watson's threat is unsettling. If fulfilled, it would set a precedent incompatible with the Harvard theory of education, a theory which includes as one of its essential features the freedom of students to form unencumbered their own organizations. No matter how illogical the situation, or how tongue-in-cheek its perpetrators, the Dean's Office has no business concerning itself with anything more than enforcing the rules...