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...Monstrous Pun. Like the late James Joyce, O'Nolan is a master of the monstrous pun. Erudite, ironic, he devotes many a column to the hilarious systematic destruction of literary cliches, to parodies of Eire's leprechaun literature and the red-taped verbiage of Government service, to absurd home-economics hints. He is an unsparing, beloved critic of devotees of Irish, who overuse Eire's national tongue; a subtler critic of the clerics, who are not unaware of his innuendo and high irony...
...Worst pun of the week: "May gal's a welder. She's carrying the torch...
Well sir, the pun to end all puns has happened! The event took place at Cowie when a person whose uses, for reasons of security, cannot be disclosed said, "My brother's a mechanic because be helps his feed...
...during the first decade of the 20th Century, came more than 2,000,000 Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
...whole the play lacks the timing and spirit that are the life-blood of the sophisticated comedy it tries to be and even the attractive presence of the star does not offset the failings of the production. Thus the total effect of "Reflected Glory" would involve a bad pun about a dirty mirror. It can all be chalked up to experience Miss Swanson's and ours...