Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the most ardent admirer of the Dunces, for example, will be eager to add to his record library a song whose punch line...
...really night, for already dawn perched silver-sandaled on the punch bowl. Mr. Phillips nodded in that sad, solemn way to Mr. Brooks. And the paste-faced fellow toppled from the coffee table, at rumpled, indignant peace with...
After examining Australia with a cold and analytic eye, Britain's terrible-tempered Malcolm Muggeridge (onetime editor of Punch) last week shot off, in the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald, a characteristic Muggeridge salvo: "Superficially, Australia is very British, indeed-in fact, I should say decidedly more British than Britain is. It constitutes a kind of National Park in which extinct British species can be seen living in their natural habitat. But I cannot help thinking that Australia's Britishness belongs more to a dream than to reality...
...Your Friends to the FBI for Fun and Profit"), sometimes sharply on target ("The reissue title of this paperback book is Here Is My Flesh, which originally appeared as An Introduction to Accounting"), Sahl flays both political left and right, freewheels through a labyrinth of rambling asides to his punch lines...
...nerveless ("I never get stage fright") old pro, London-born* Joyce Grenfell, 48, stumbled onstage by accident in 1939 as a sideline to a happy career as wife (to Mine Director Reginald Grenfell), a radio critic for the Observer, and sometime writer for Punch. She was dragooned into a London revue after a party performance. She later collaborated with Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter on BBC comedies, by 1955 had played outstanding bits in movies (Genevieve, The Belles of St. Trinian's) and her first solo revue in London...