Word: gaggingly
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...less quickly than this winter's snows have the charges of "Fascism" at Columbia's Teachers' College melted with yesterday's announcement that Professor Kilpatrick will give the Macy Lectures in 1938 and 1939. For a while the enforcing of the retirment law looked like a gag upon the liberal and controversial teacher. He does not think that his throat is being cut, nonetheless, and the report of his new position verifies the friendly words of Dean Russell before the New Orleans Convention...
...luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally for a serious role but Harry confesses: "I can't play straight, I get too embarrassed. Right in the middle of a scene I get to thinking how ridiculous all this is, and I gag...
...gag was suggested by Phil A. Sinclair, a 1936 Ohio State University graduate, a "Teke"' who rated the Journalism School's blessing as an A-1 promoter...
...thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never forgive the king for inviting her to a dinner at which she had to sit down with "that woman" Mrs. Simpson. As presses begin to clatter, the provincial Yorkshire Post historically spits out the gag which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently...
...fictional are the practices loan office operators are warned against in the article entitled "Unending Vigilance-the Price of Pawnbrokers' Success." Biggest current menace, according to this article, is the "teeth substitution gag," by which swindlers trick unwary pawnbrokers into accepting brass-coated false teeth for gold...