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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years reserved, Harvard-bred New York Times Critic J. Brooks Atkinson wrote reviews as sober and dignified as a Times editorial. Atkinson left the pun-making and funmaking to such colleagues of those days as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, Percy Hammond, George Jean Nathan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Minus the J. | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...case, Mr. Nash's poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable book of lyrical doggerel...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Avenue | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Chat and Shah | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Draws 2086 Undergrads Exceeding All Preliminary Estimates | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

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