Word: malapropian
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...boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling his ear to his head, trying to hit a golf ball with a tennis racket and stumbling through the Oval Office with a football helmet on his head. While Nessen was off-camera, another SN regular launched a malapropian tirade against "presidential erections." As a result of prior urgings by Nessen and White House Photographer David Kennerly, President Ford briefly appeared on the show, via videotape, with some wooden gags of his own. Though a number of Republican viewers were appalled at Nessen's poor judgment, White House...
...Word-wise George Smathers was said to have won over back-country Floridians by malapropian innuendo. Gasped Smathers righteously: "Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extravert! Not only that, but this man had to matriculate before he could go to college, and he has a sister who was once a Thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy...
...that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme of European tradition versus American vulgarity arouses one's latent chauvinism. The humorous possibilities of Solly Ward's malapropian speeches are done to death on his first appearance...
...Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address climaxed as follows: "We funny old things look to you lads to be the future leaders of the country." . . . Made public last week were the majority and minority reports of the Extraordinary Tribunal constituted by joint action of both Houses...
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