Word: puns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funny to watch. Published last week was a piccolo-sized book, People of Note (E. P. Dutton & Co.; $1), in which Versifier Laurence McKinney and Artist Gluyas Williams have some fun with musicmakers. The pictures, like "Oboe", are better than the verses. For Mr. McKinney takes his pun where he finds it, and finds it in unlikely places. Samples...
Touring Northern California few weeks ago, Diego Rivera passed through the up right little town of Red Bluff, county seat of Tehema County. "This must be where Communism was founded." he chuckled to friends, who repeated it to San Francisco newshawks. Last week, the pun reached Tehema County. Over an indignant front page story the local Corning Observer screamlined RED BLUFF NOT NAMED FOR COMMUNISTS...
...Aherne. The Ahernes are one of Hollywood's happiest married couples. Eschewing Hollywood hotspots, they prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon line, eh?" Sometimes admiring Brian Aherne begs Joan to repeat a pun...
...parties, he holds his cigaret between his teeth, dominates the room with talk. Regularly he falls asleep at 10 p.m., wakes at 11:30, talking. A lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like...
Last week Nazi pamphleteers turned out new copy which was dropped in France. It boasted, nonsensically, that Germany had received "a million tons of cereals and two million tons of fodder" from Russia. But it tried chiefly to drive a wedge between Britain and France by means of a pun...