Word: puns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well sir, the pun to end all puns has happened! The event took place at Cowie when a person whose uses, for reasons of security, cannot be disclosed said, "My brother's a mechanic because be helps his feed...
...during the first decade of the 20th Century, came more than 2,000,000 Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
...whole the play lacks the timing and spirit that are the life-blood of the sophisticated comedy it tries to be and even the attractive presence of the star does not offset the failings of the production. Thus the total effect of "Reflected Glory" would involve a bad pun about a dirty mirror. It can all be chalked up to experience Miss Swanson's and ours...
...gave up writing," says Garvin, "I suppose I should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...
Naturally, there are a few errors of omission and commission that we must try to ignore. It is to be regretted that the author stooped so low as to pun a phrase from "Fair Harvard" as a title for a chapter on printing--"Type of our ancestor's worth." The index of the book is very sketchy, and such material as the filling in of Back Bay is omitted. And certainly even poetic liceuse does not excuse the illustrator from depicting the Charles flowing serenely past Massachusetts Hall in the direction of what is now the Square. But these criticisms...