Word: gaggingly
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...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...
...familiar gag that "Only in Philadelphia would nearly everybody read the Bulletin" but there is not much truth to it. The Bulletin may be unspectacular, but it is a good newspaper. Lately, it has strangely refused to act its age. It recently underwent a drastic face-lifting, peeled off the old-fashioned headline types in favor of clean, ultra-modern fonts. Traditionally Republican, it has nevertheless been staunchly pro-Lilienthal, and has given Harry Truman some kindly back-pats. Since it bought the liberal Record, (TIME, Feb. 10), it has had an embarrassing wealth of columns, now prints Tom Stokes...
...night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage strategy conference...
...curriculum was too tough for many of the boys & girls, whose tested I.Q. averaged only 100. (The local gag was that anybody who couldn't make the grade in school could always get a job at the Los Alamos labs that paid more than teacher got.) And as Los Alamos expanded, more & more schoolkids were the children of maintenance men, carpenters, shopkeepers and other nonscientists, who wanted more vocational courses and a more "progressive" education...
...jokesmith of his day is a six-foot gag-&-stunt machine named Milton Berle (rhymes with churl). His 38-year-old brain is a tight-packed file of some 50,000 jokes and japes. With never-miss efficiency, Berle can dip into these mental files, yank out just the gag he wants when he wants it. The "Thief of Badgags" (as spiteful rivals call him), who has probably lured more people into nightclubs than any performer alive, is now making his sixth attempt in 18 years to lure listeners to their radios with a Berle show...