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...night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million followed, then On the Avenue, which should establish them as top-flight cinecomedians. They have a normal brother and sister named Gertrude and George. They like gambling, but not together because "that's bad luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally...
...ante). Last week the King of Kings was furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah...
Professor Rand gave the principal speech of the evening; addressing the students as fellow alumni, he proved that they were really alumni, so short was their term as undergraduates in comparison with the age of the College. Chief pun of the evening was his witty declension of "California...
...course this fellow, speaking only Latin, didn't realize what an atrocious pun he was committing. But if he had been intelligent enough to know English, he would simply have uttered, "Caesar sees her; seize her, Caesar...
...case "s". It is no funnier to one who is familiar with the period than the fact that men then were knee-breeches and not trousers. But Mr. Thompson quotes paragraph after paragraph to show how ludicrous this custom was, and it affords him an opportunity for a bad pun or two. There are other puns. The movement of the fleet during the evacuation of Boston by the British in 1776 reminded one witness, it is recorded, of a "moving forest." To which Mr. Thompson adds: "a Birnam Wood moving on towards Dunsinano, with reverse English...