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Word: gunsel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Country Club, e) "Cheatin' Charlie" (the "Boxer Gunsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: BLACK QUESTIONS FOR WHITEY | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises from petty-ante rumrunner to gunsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: The Student Movie Makers | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...responsible for the biggest clean joke in theater history. As a speakeasy waiter in the 1927 musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The First Time He Made Anyone Sad | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...owners adjourned at 6:45 p.m. (EST) for a two-hour dinner break with Leahy leading acting commissioner Austin H. Gunsel 8-3. One vote was cast for Paul Schissler, special events director of the Los Angeles Times. It takes nine votes to elect a $50,000-a-year successor to the late Bert Bell as NFL head...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: NBA to Consider Franchise Bid Made by Team From West Coast; Leahy May Head NFL Next Year | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

Leahy was nominated by Victor Morabito, a co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers. Gunsel was offered by Frank Mc-Namee, president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Washington's George Preston Marshall placed Schissler's name before the meeting...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: NBA to Consider Franchise Bid Made by Team From West Coast; Leahy May Head NFL Next Year | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

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