Word: punning
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...grinning host that he, too, had been a mayor once but found the job too difficult. Mayor Walker ejaculated: "I am surprised you didn't make a good mayor! A mayor is up in the air a good deal of the time! Ha ha!" This was a jovial pun, for the Mayor's guest was no other than the Allied ace of aces, destroyer of the Boche terror Herr Wisseman, avenger of famed Ace Guynemer, M. le Capitaine Rene Fonck, late of the French Cigognes ("Storks," crack escadrille). He had called to explain more or less formally that...
...some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter freezing the others out? What about the good team of Egg and Eaton? Yes, they were badly scrambled, he was told. He smirked briefly and recomposed his face. His father, he reminded himself hastily, would never have laughed at a pun like that...
...That's terrible. That's a pun...
William Lyon Phelps, famed Lampson Professor of English at Yale University: "In Scribner's for May I committed a pun. Wrote I: 'Well, the turtle has his merits; and it is on record that he won a race with a more gifted animal. I myself doubt it; at all events, I am certain that, whoever won the race, it was won by a hair...
...pun by a famed Lampson Professor...