Word: punning
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...content with one pun, Fairless took an amiable sideswipe at congressional investigators in general. "I have been through so many congressional inquisitions," he said, "that no self-respecting skeleton would hide in my closet on a bet . . . And yet to this day, most of our inquisitors remain blissfully ignorant of the most important fact of all-how steel is made...
...gleefully slugs people he doesn't particularly like. Groucho handles the leering quip with illimitable finesse: ". . . some days I never got to bed at all--in those days a college widow stood for something." Chico, an underrated artist, is a good straight man and a master of the pun: "there ain't no Sanity Clause." Zeppo tries hard, but he's only along for the ride...
...principal feature of the shop ever since one Arthur E. La Flamme first opened its doors and started cutting hair as the fashions of November, 1898, dictated. The enterprising founder, mindful of the French maxim "Cherchez la femme," saw how conveniently his name lent itself to the obvious pun. Hence "Cherchez La Flamme," which, as the years passed, was shortened to a simple "La Flamme...
...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...
...quite curious to note how relatively immortal some of "The Stories They Tell" [TIME, Nov. 15 et seq.] really can be. And how sometimes they do not improve with time (no pun meant) . . . [Here is] a much more recent story...