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...line of facile patter Charlie clicks rabbits out of his green felt hat, has his gallery alternately rolling in the aisles and sitting on the edges of their seats. Typical crack out of his million-gag grab bag (after a difficult miss): "Gentlemen, you have just seen me tie the great Willie Hoppe. He can't make that shot either." Typical sample (named "Over the Top") from his 600 trick-shot repertoire: after making two cushions, the cue ball jumps up on the wooden rail, rolls along its full length, drops off to complete a perfect around-the-table...
...undersell your Congress." Her weekly reports ran 1,200 to 1,600 words, gave soldiers a brilliantly readable summary of the political week. When she wrote, early in May, that home-front journalists were predicting that WPBoss Donald Nelson might be on the way out, she added a gag making the rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When the House revised the Senate's anti-strike bill, she reported it had "so many teeth in it labor could...
...pacifist mid-'30s the Veterans of Future Wars was the most biting, satiric anti-war crusade of them all. These were the confident college youths who knew their elders had botched the last war and the peace; they would not fall for the hollow gag of trying to make the world safe for democracy. With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death...
...think that I will have to tell you the best gag I heard this week and that happened in a Tactics Class . . . GORDON McDONOUGH was a bit puzzled as to definitions of ship manenvers and asked the question of the instructor, "Does the guide of ships in a line of bearing always bear to the right just like we do out in the Yard?" . . . (Ed. note: we hope not) . . . could a ship ever get in and out of those trees like...
...favorite gag on the West Coast used to be: Foster never speaks to Kleiser and Kleiser never speaks to Foster, they just make signs. But war's dimouts and blackouts ruined the gag, pushed Foster & Kleiser, biggest West Coast outdoor advertising sign men (second biggest in the world), into doing much more than making signs...