Word: pent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been circulated by people who themselves can never think of a pun until they are driving home after the party. The fact is that punsters have gone underground-at least as far as polite literature is concerned. Among the U.S. writers, there must be a vast reservoir of pent-up puns, just waiting for the signal to burst out into the open. That heady day may be at hand...
Long before the Christians or the Communists got to Russia, pent finches, larks, blackbirds and pigeons were let out of their cages to symbolize the coming of spring. As time passed, the freeing of birds became part of the annual celebration of the Orthodox Feast of the Annunciation. Even under the stern materialism of Soviet rule. Russia's common man, himself pent beyond hope, continued to find a fleeting moment of freedom in the liberation of small winged creatures on April 7, the Day of the Birds...
...Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, said the Smoker is "a healthy and happy outlet" for the pent-up energies of the winter term. "There is an element of good fellowship in it, and of course it's a fine old tradition," von Stade said...
...Critic Edward Weeks has said of Author de la Roche, "makes me think of Trollope and Galsworthy." In fact, Author de la Roche's achievement seems to be that she knows that Jalna's changeless orchards, spaniels, horses and horseplay are just what a lot of city-pent readers are grateful for. She is to her worldwide audience what bedroom slippers are to tired feet-cozy, roomy, unashamedly woolly and beyond artistic criticism...
...tales had a familiar ring. Like those of P.W.s released from German and Japanese camps in World War II, they reflected the accumulated bitterness and hatred of pent-up men fighting to survive in an enemy prison. In front of movie cameras and a battery of correspondents, last week's returnees charged that some of their buddies in the Communist prison camps had turned informers. What was new about their complaint was the added complication of buddies converted to Communism...