Word: gaggingly
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...hostile crowd, calling them all a "gang of damned cowards." In many a campaign this wily Irishman has had to use his fists before getting a chance to speak. All kinds of political tricks have been used against him, but Mickey always comes back for more with a newer gag than any of his opponents...
Western silver Senators, always in there thinking of ways & means to force the U.S. to use more silver at the over-inflated legal price of 71.11? per oz. (see p. 73), came up with a new gag last week: a silver "one-bit" piece, worth 12½?. The reason they gave was the alleged "danger" that dime-priced articles might soar to 15? for lack of an intermediate coin. Despite the "danger," the Treasury, mindful that eight billion pennies are in circulation, kept cool...
...Hope picture, the gag's the thing, which explains why "My Favorite Blonde" is going to be one of the season's successes even though its plot is lifted from that hoary thriller of the Thirties, "The 39 Steps." The story of the fellow and girl forced together on a transcontinental escape from spies has been dragged out and hacked over innumerable times, but "My Favorite Blonde" proves that a clever script can make the oldest plot a thing...
...left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
...Yorker about her actress sister June Havoc and her mother, with whom she started trouping when she was six. Even that job did not disillusion her with literature ("People told me that anyone who wrote for The New Yorker got a neurotic stomach. I thought it was a gag. I felt fine when I started. Now, sure enough, my stomach has gone to hell...