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...Knox does not worry about one important part of Punch: the cover has been the same since 1849, when Richard Doyle drew the now famous sketch of Punch and his dog Toby. It was adopted by Mark Lemon, the first of Punch's editors (his colleagues used to pun: "What would Punch be without Lemon...
Romans who knew enough English to pun called him "The Little Flour." UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia snapped right back with a warning that, although he knew food supplies were low, the Italians could not expect more help from abroad...
Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...nickname "Crime," by the way, apparently originated with a little pun with which the Advocate used to amuse itself. "Crime's Own" was supposed to sound like "Crime-on." Anyway, Crimeds adopted the tag, and have used it as a heading for newshreaks garnished with appropriate ed notes...
Awkward Mantle. The Man of the Year personified the problem of the year. His very name had almost the force of a pun. Like most of mankind, he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders...