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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the fish I was catching, but couldn't in view of the fact that here in Washington apparently you good people have been going from Wirt to Wirt." He paused, but the Congressmen were too befuddled by the sight of him to laugh even at a Presidential pun. "For you younger members of both Houses-speaking from an experience of many years in Washington-I want to point out to you the advantages of the Washington climate in July and August. It rarely gets over 110° here-there is no humidity and I don't mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blossom Time | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...other ball except that the men rarely put their hands in their pockets. Old friends who had not seen one another since they were last in service in the same house, met for the first time in years. But butlers had a chance to get off their favorite trade pun: "Whose burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Butlers | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Whose burglar are you?" is the favorite pun in what calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Fear not the inevitable pun; if there is to be a sale, the Bookshop must announce the fact itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/21/1933 | See Source »

...mean to say," he roared at the prisoner, "that this Marie Louise paid you 90 pun' for immoral services rendered- for you to be her paramour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prisoner in the Tower | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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