Word: puns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...fantastic and amusing comedy, "Wurzel-Flummery", by A. A. Milne, editor of "Punch" and author of "Mr. Pun Passes By", will be the second of the trio. "Robert Crashaw", a dignified member of Parliament, played by F. DeN. Schroeder '24, is unexpectedly left a large sum of money, but under the condition that he should adopt the name "Wurzel-Flummery". To complicate matters his rival in Parliament, "Richard Meriton", played by R. T. Pell '24 is left an equal sum and under equal conditions. Miss Dorothy Somerset '21 of Radcliffe, as "Viola Crashaw", provides a happy solution to the problem...