Word: punned
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...other ball except that the men rarely put their hands in their pockets. Old friends who had not seen one another since they were last in service in the same house, met for the first time in years. But butlers had a chance to get off their favorite trade pun: "Whose burglar...
Fear not the inevitable pun; if there is to be a sale, the Bookshop must announce the fact itself...
...mean to say," he roared at the prisoner, "that this Marie Louise paid you 90 pun' for immoral services rendered- for you to be her paramour...
Monroe Owsley, who has been a cinema cad so often that his last name sounds like a pun, tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted...
Author Morley has kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...