Word: pun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like...
...Pun...
Last week Nazi pamphleteers turned out new copy which was dropped in France. It boasted, nonsensically, that Germany had received "a million tons of cereals and two million tons of fodder" from Russia. But it tried chiefly to drive a wedge between Britain and France by means of a pun...
...happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist, gag-stacked Broad-wayfarer-are acknowledged by listeners as U. S.'s most knowing know-it-alls. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman is famous for beating the experts to the pun while he puts the pick of 75,000 questions submitted each week by listeners...
When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...