Word: puns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary charades more or less cheerfully present a more or less repetitive series of matrimonial alarums and excursions. The De Vries wife-customarily strong, indulgent, humorless but invaluable -acts as a combined anchor and honeypot for the engaging, mercurial, hopelessly lightweight De Vriesian husband, who mostly can't pun his way out of a wet paper bag but is willing to die trying...
...kind of wry delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected all the joys and vexations of American life in those resigned...
...literary pun. "Owen" in old Scottish means "young soldier," so that James' title suggests "young soldier who wins his grave...
...useful a book should certainly not be boycotted. In fact, as Mrs. Malaprop, that endearing eponymous personage might have said, "The authors have led the way and the pillologists and parrotists shall have pun preceding...
...Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy seized on the image to make a mordant and perhaps tasteless pun: "America is coming out of Laos on the skids...