Word: puns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving all the time. The motion of a single object cannot be measured . . . except as it moves in relation to another. . . Relative is the key word. . . .") Said Fadiman, explaining the fourth dimension (time) : "Motion and the passage of light take time, [therefore] time is a dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance...
...cook in the monastery adjoining the Cathedral that the choirmaster, a Christian Brother, had been storing bombs in his cell. Irrepressible Bogotanos, recalling how another of the Brothers had been blown up last February when a bomb exploded in his pocket, dubbed the order "Cuerpo de Bomberos" (a pun, meaning either Fire Department or Bombers' Corps...
Such a home Germans called a Leyhaus, a bitter pun on Leihhaus, which means pawnbroker...
Somoza makes it his business to turn his effervescent charm full-faucet on U.S. diplomats and officials. James Bolton Stewart, now U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, speaks up stoutly for Somoza's "stable" administration. Tacho, who likes a pun, has amiably referred to the Ambassador as "my steward...
...crest, which is "Touch not gloveless." Said he: "It Is a Scots motto, and means literally, do not touch the cat with a gloveless hand; it may scratch you. Appropriate, yes, but it has nothing to do with my name. The College of Heralds would not make a pun, you snow. Catto means fight, battle...