Word: puns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...pun is widely regarded as the lowest form of humor. This judgment may or may not have been circulated by people who themselves can never think of a pun until they are driving home after the party. The fact is that punsters have gone underground-at least as far as polite literature is concerned. Among the U.S. writers, there must be a vast reservoir of pent-up puns, just waiting for the signal to burst out into the open. That heady day may be at hand...
...March 15 cover of TIME shows four bullets with "Dum Du Dum Dum" written over them to represent the classic Dragnet theme. If these were drawn, as I suspect, to represent dumdum bullets, I credit the artist, Boris Chaliapin, with the finest pun TIME has made in quite a while...
...instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars. Some thought it meant "Ave Maria." Wahlgren is sure that crafty old Farmer Ohman intended it as a learned pun, his way of having fun with the experts...
...whole of the Rev. Paul Austin Wolfe's argument in his article for Presbyterians titled You Are a Catholic [TIME, Nov. 2] is an elaborate and unworthy pun. It is, moreover, a pun on a single letter, for while the Presbyterian Church may well be a catholic church, as he contends, it is most certainly not, and will never be, a Catholic Church. He affirms that there has been "persistent propaganda to apply the word Catholic to the Roman Church alone." That also is false, for it has never been necessary . . . The Western world has always called the Church...