Word: punned
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...Virginia Faulkner's Friends and Romans.* A "comico-romantic novel," it breaks nobody's bones or butterflies, lets no threatening skeletons loose on a frightened world, hurls no manifesto, literary or political. Pertinacious sniffers might accuse Author Faulkner of abetting James Joyce in attempting to restore the pun as an honest figure of speech; but most readers will take these and similar skylarkings with a hop, skip and a jump. As lively and tuneful as a good musicomedy, Friends and Romans is no more profound, but it is cheaper and better entertainment...
...desk, at the beginning of the work day, Fridays, I take snatches at it, between rewriting reporters, wire copy and whatnot. But this snatch, the penultimate paragraph, col. 1, p. 13, April 23, in which you state that his audience didn't laugh at Roosevelt's pun, indicates a fall from your customary accurate grace...
President's Pun...
...about the fish I was catching, but couldn't in view of the fact that here in Washington apparently you good people have been going from Wirt to Wirt." He paused, but the Congressmen were too befuddled by the sight of him to laugh even at a Presidential pun. "For you younger members of both Houses-speaking from an experience of many years in Washington-I want to point out to you the advantages of the Washington climate in July and August. It rarely gets over 110° here-there is no humidity and I don't mind...
...Whose burglar are you?" is the favorite pun in what calling...