ABSTRACT
With that much by way of protest against pointless puns, let us pass on to the subject of puns with a point—or rather pass back to it. For Ogden Nash’s transcontinental expedition against the Daughters of the American Revolution was a pun with a point. It started us off, you remember, on a trail of sinus trouble in the head bones of some socially but not logically superior grand dames; we got nowhere on that trail because the word sinus let us down, not being what it seemed. But we did, as a result of that very let-down, find ourselves at the end of another trail we are not loath to travel—one offering a view of the weak logical position of those same grand dames whose social position, they frequently remind us, is so high. The good ladies are not troubled with sinus—no, that is nonsense—but they are troubled with signers, and that is a statement worth making.
