Word: pun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify at the expense of Daudet and Zola and Miss Austen. Because much of the experience of Zola and his contemporaries is of the gutter, much of their writing smacks of the slum, but is it the less true on that account? Because...
...Harvard Lampoon designates the CRIMSON as the "Crime's Own." That is a good pun, Lampy, but isn't it rather rough on crime? - Courant...
...guests assembled on that occasion it is the duty of the Bursar to present a needle and thread, admonishing each recipient with these words, "Take this and be thrifty." The custom is one of great antiquity, and has been deemed to have arisen, perhaps without much authority, in a pun on the founder's name. Aiguille is the Erench for needle, and fill for thread, and the two together have certainly some resemblance to Egglesfield, the confessor of Queen Phillipa, who was the founder of the College. Possibly four or five centuries ago the pronunciation may have been more closely...
...says a man cannot make a good pun in a foreign language ? One of the most distressing that has reached our ears for some time, was perpetrated yesterday by a French instructor of this University...
...instructors in Natural History has been guilty of a most atrocious pun. "Monsieur Le Cocque has a name," he said, "which is Gallic in more senses than...