Word: punsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incorrigible Punster Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
Joseph Untermeyer, 19, adopted son of relentless Punster* and Anthologist Louis, was cleared of illegal possession of firearms. Arrested a month ago in a Manhattan loft building that held a small arsenal, he explained that he was just wrapping bundles of food and clothing for Palestine, didn't know anything about the arms. The court believed...
Coles Phinizy '42, chief punster of Harvard's other funny mag, did not seem overly irate...
...Benny issue, complete with impressive data on the rise and take* of radio's richest earner. On one program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail to Jack Benny...
Tall, portly, auburn-haired, Editor Morley has the ruddy complexion, the tweedy cut of a friendly English squire. A colossal after-dinner wit and classical punster, he plays bad tennis, smokes good pipes violently. On singing terms with a vast repertory of German drinking songs, he is reputedly the most difficult man in Washington...