Word: puns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been disappointed. He is casually spontaneous, whether throwing away an outrageous pun ("I will now play you excerpts. My mother made wonderful excerpts. Fried excerpts, boiled excerpts . . .") or sneering at Franz Liszt's Liebestraum as he skilfully plays it. He seems to ad lib every other line (but does not), appears to enjoy his own performance enormously (and does). One customer, who apparently has almost as good a time with Borge's performance as Borge, has been to see him 54 times. Another man laughed so hard he had a heart attack, was forbidden by his wife...
Last week Sylvester prescribed the appropriate beverage to go with reducing diets: "Lighter fluid." Sylvester can seldom resist a pun. He told about the vending machine that sells flowers and gives "change in peonies," and the vacationing scientist who posted a sign on his office, "Gone Fission." When the German Chancellor flew to Moscow, Sylvester wondered: "Due to time changes, did he have to Adenauer...
...three: Tulelake (pop. 927), Eagleville (pop. 425), Solvang (pop. 800). * The governor's name was no capricious pun; he was named for C. C. Goodwin, a famed editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck...
...exclusive interview last night, the Yale News board voiced differing opinions on the CRIMSON'S plan. "Ridiculous," said the New Sports editor, "nobody stays in New Haven on weekends except these swimmers." Cleverly coining a pun, the Yale News chairman told...
...Agnes Deigh (her name a pun on Agnus Dei) plays godmother and literary agent to a lisping crew of homosexuals until she jumps out of a hotel window...