Word: gaggingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House. Months before, Edwards had asked his studio audience a pointless query: "Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?" The M.C. liked his little joke, repeated it, and in time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel in the house: listeners heard a meek response from a Verona, N.J. mechanical engineer named Rudolph J. Wickel. Edwards, rising to the occasion, promptly announced that $1,000 awaited Mr. Wickel's shovel in the Holyoke lot. Mr. Wickel joined the gold rush, but failed to find the money...
...gag repeated in the midst of battle about waiting for TIME to arrive so we could see what the - we were doing was familiar. All I had to do with the Pony Edition was to step out on deck and I was mobbed. . . . Sometimes the copies would reach us as far afield as the Marshall Islands on the very date of issue...
...great vaudevillians and conceivably the greatest master of ceremonies of his day, Fay shows not a trace of breeziness, brassiness or smut. His manner is almost prim, his delivery slow, his material largely pointless. For one drawled gag like "Had a date with a newspaperwoman the other night-yes, she keeps a stand," there are a dozen droll nothings that are triumphs of timing and intonation...
Divorced. By Paul Derringer, 36, veteran pitcher, now with the Chicago Cubs: Eloise Brownbach Derringer, 30; after eight years; in Chicago. Hulking, gag-loving Derringer claimed that his wife threw cocktails and plates at him but asked no alimony...
Sirs: I worked with Ernie for five years on the Washington News, and I can testify to his wondrous hypochondria. The standing office gag was to ask Ernie every hour on the hour how he felt. He had only one reply through the years: "Terrible!" And I believe the kid meant it. He always looked it. Congratulations. A really wonderful piece. LEONARD HALL New York City...