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...Typical gag from the Harry Tugend-Dwight Taylor script: a songwriter (Oscar Levant) trying to converse with Cindy Lou's fire-eating aunt (Elizabeth Patterson) in the midst of her relics of the Confederacy: "My mother had a lot of General Grant's things in her home." She: "Bottles, I presume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...gag-minded Chicago couple who sent leftover wedding invitations to assorted bigwigs they didn't know, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée du Pont sent formal regrets, a solid silver coffee urn, creamer, and sugar bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Washington | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...student who turned to singing as a gag, and while making fortunes in cinema, the radio and the phonograph record business, has operated a race track, a horse farm, had an interest in two prize fighters and a girls' baseball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...have a crew working down under Mass Avenue," said the voice, "and we can't go on unless you stop using the water." CRIMSON files show that this gag was first pulled by messenger 152 years after the founding of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAYER HALL FALLS FOR OLD ONE AND HAS WATER TROUBLE | 3/5/1941 | See Source »

...bewildered crowd, which had expected to see nothing more exciting than a demonstration against Germany, was unable to piece together the rapid series of events which had passed before it. A few thought someone had been half-killed, others that it was all just a gag to promote interest for the newspapers. Members of the suicide squad, anxious to make amends to their maltreated chief, led the victim away as the fireworks came...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifth Columnists Almost Disrupt Hex Burning of Hitler in Effigy | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

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