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...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...
President Roosevelt last week set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration, with snow-crested Edward R. Stettinius. Washington pun haters, noting the bureau's initials, grimly girded themselves. But after their bout with the initials of the Office of Facts & Figures (OFF), the town's punsters seemed exhausted, could offer little but "Praise OLLA...
Opening the Stadium program on the afternoon of graduation, the Ivy Orator is responsible for creating laughter and instilling humor in the audience before the graduation exercises themselves, actually begin. His six-minute address to the assembled crowed must be hilarious with pun after pun to relieve the seriousness and raise the spirit of the graduation program...
Lampoon president Coles H. Phinizy '42 announced that his am would take an uncompromising stand in favor of Marx. "We prefer Groucho's teachings to Karl's," he said wittily. "We're going to demand a survey course called Elements of Humour A in which a good pun would guarantee a gentleman witster's C in the final exam. We also want a graduate seminar, Pornography...