Word: gaggingly
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...about time that such a reputable journal as TIME stopped reiterating that old gag about Henry VIII being the founder of the Anglican Church? . . . For example, in "Bureau oi Information" published in the Roman paper known as Our Sunday Visitor (issue of April 1940), the question "Who founded the Episcopal Church?" is answered in this way: "The Episcopal Church is a branch of the Anglican Church. . . . This Church was not actually founded by Henry VIII . . . but under Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth the present Church was formed." At last someone in Rome has discovered that Henry did not found...
...into the Lincoln Theatre to preview Dixie Pictures' first offering. It was called Mr. Washington Goes to Town, although none of its all-colored cast impersonates anyone named Washington. Made by its white producers and scripters in six days for some $15,000, and stuffed with every old gag and situation known to movies, it soon had its howling, fun-filled audience rolling in the aisles...
...soft-shirted man in his forties who wears a belt which his vest doesn't quite reach and sits around in the kitchen after midnight snacking on a slice of sugared bread dampened with milk. He came as close as anyone has to beating Wall Street's gag about merging Worthington Pump and International Nickel, to get Pumper Nickel...
...Gracie raised Cain on the air, popping up on countless programs in search of her supposedly missing brother. The search went on for months, got to be a coast-to-coast gag. It also boosted Burns & Allen's radio popularity tremendously...
...poisonous snakes had to be killed (to prevent their getting loose in air raids), keepers, some of whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...