Word: puns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-vivisectionists detest the American Medical Association, which swats them as though they were annoying horse flies. Mrs. Jeanie McCredie Matile of Chicago meant no pun when she declared that there was "a steadily growing revolt against the dogmatism of the A. M. A. by its own members." Dr. Alonzo Eugene Austin, Manhattan homeopath, occasional physician to John Davison Rockefeller Sr., not a member of the A. M. A., testified: "If it were necessary to tie these little animals down to get our experience of how to cure people, I'd give up the medical profession tomorrow. I have...
...chiropractors who, as the American Bureau of Chiropractic, met in Manhattan last week, saw no fun in the pun and joke played on them by the new Encyclopedia Britannica. Explained therein in immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
...Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...
Said the erudite Times: "The object of the writer has been to make the Latin easily intelligible, and therefore he has avoided elaborate punning, which, though it pleases the groundlings, tends to obscure the meaning. Still there are a few-'Gas main' (Rogas manat), 'Stick-a-lips' (Aste Calypso) are good examples; the rest are puns of a single word like felix and omnibus. In this connection it is interesting to note that the centenary of this mode of public conveyance is marked by the recurrence of the same pun as was employed...