Word: punned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes for ten or fifteen minutes. Total strangers confronting total strangers, making nervous small talk with artificial poise, watching through narrow eyes for the wrong color of socks, a grammatical slip or affectation, a pun or wisecrack in questionable taste. Then...
While some staffers thought the pun too corny and the sentence open to literal interpretation by the fast reader, none questioned the propriety of printing it. For the punster, betrayed by his nom de plume, was none other than the Times's Publisher and Board Chairman Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who frequently writes a quiet little letter to the editor...
...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...
...seem to find the pan for the pun in your movie reviews. Even your book schnooks seem took with this folly of jollies. SHIRLEY REYNOLDS Bloomington...
...reaction next day made it clear that the whole felt hurt. "Butler squeezes the wives," complained the conservative Daily Mail. The Tory Daily Express and Liberal News Chronicle were two minds with but a single pun: "Butler Raids the Kitchen." From miners and railwaymen came demands for higher wages to match higher prices. Said the Conservative Daily Telegraph, usually one of Butler's stoutest supporters: "His strategy is disappointing because he has not made any frontal attack on government expenditures...