Word: avoirdupoised
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Of Chauncey Depew. "... convinced me that Chauncey Depew was a phrasemaker of but little intellect, to balance considerable avoirdupois."
The purpose of organizing a lighter football team, as suggested by our communicant this morning, is admirable. Any sport with the strong attraction that football has should be enjoyed by as many participants as possible. From the nature of the game few men of light and intermediate weights can safely...
In a certain London revue, the audience one moment beholds a slim and graceful heroine seated on some very formidable-looking rocks, wailing for her lover. The next moment the rocks dissolve into a Hindu temple, and the heroine gains considerably in avoirdupois. All this--as the spectacle plays advertise...
Although it is challenged as a menace to pedestrians and automobilists, it provides a safety zone on which pedestrians can stand in order to board surface cars. If it were removed and a safety zone marked out, the automobilist would still be forced to go around the area as they...
We ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow...