Word: puns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monroe Owsley, who has been a cinema cad so often that his last name sounds like a pun, tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted...
Author Morley has kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...
...always looks grave at a pun...
...dean of Harvard University to men of "highest honors." This year, fifty-five men, the largest number over to be so distinguished, are to receive this recognition of their attainment. To the average undergraduate, however, the word Detur represents either a misspelling or, somehow, an intricate, incomprehensible pun. There has hitherto been no attempt to publicize the institution of Deturs, and small fault can be found with such an attitude. But as peculiarly a Harvard tradition, as a valuable incentive to scholarship, and as interesting to the booklovers, the Detur is worthy of greater fame. The suggestion that each House...
Miss Pennington's spontaneity does not extend to the plot, which seems to an admittedly intolerant Playgoer just another refurbishing of ideas that were old even before "Jack O'Lantern" came to town. Such matter as the old pun about coffe-grounds, or the mix-up taken from O'Henry's "Gifts of the Magi," or the business of loading teacups with sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped...