Word: gags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gag the Press is crude. Last week club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, proudly "consecrated" the German Press to Nazi service. Into his office for the consecration filed 300 of Berlin's most eminent newsfolk...
...bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested...
...Manufacturers Trust Co. and Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life to making the mere mention of Goldman, Sachs a sure-fire gag from Broadway to Hollywood.* But the more fun Eddie Cantor had with Goldman. Sachs the madder he got. Finally last year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters...
...game-making companies like Milton Bradley Co. and Parker Bros, turned to cheap, cardboard-backed jigsaw. Einson-Freeman's 3,000,000 puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
...crowd packed the galleries the cloture motion missed by one ballot (58-to-30) the necessary two-thirds majority. The vote did not mean that Huey Long had 30 die-hard supporters on the floor but only that many a Senator is opposed in principle to any form of gag...