Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl is conveyed in these words: "This time she would have both hands free to manage her carpet bag." We may be inclined to smile at this as a sublime instance of what an unspoiled hand can do in expressing the last degree of desolation; but the artist must have his praise for a distinguished stroke...
...addition to the regular dancing and festivities, there are to be presented during supper a number of special attractions, including a clog dance by G. B. Moynahan '26 and J. H. S. Moynahan '21, a presentation by the three Bragiotti sisters, and piano accordion selections by an Italian artist...
...under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
...Cooke '26, of the Lampoon, showed to the District Attorney a print of "Olympia," the original painting by Manet, the caricature of which aroused so much criticism in the Literary Digest number of the Lampoon. Cooke pointed out that the picture had been only slightly altered by the Lampoon artist. He also explained that the Lampoon maintained a standard of clean humor much higher than that of most contemporary college comics...
...only point on which serious objection had been raised was a picture of a nude man. This, a close parody of the name of a well known artist, constituted the grounds for the action of the postal authorities...