Word: barrettes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long time rival of the 'Poon as Cambridge's funniest monthly magazine, the Advocate is planning to take its famous barouche out of moth-balls in order that Nannie, as President Marvin Barrett '42 affectionately calls her, may have a suitable conveyance to a punch in her honor in November...
...Marve" Barrett, replete with red, black, and yellow cross-flecked, post-Tattersall waistcoat, apple-green pants, and cross gaiters, blurted out, the advance announcement that the Advocate is planning to strike off a special medal in honor of the "actress" and to knit her a special cherry-red and battleship-grey Advocate cravat...
...circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking. She was a leader in developing the women's magazines from mere vehicles of sentimental fiction...
Louisa (Edith Barrett) likes to put frogs on the dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...
There are only two verse offerings scattered among this month's prose: a somewhat diffuse, and so far as meaning is concerned, opaque sonnet by marvin Barrett, and a very clever parody of Eliot's "A Cooking Egg" by Dunstan Thompson, entitled "A Baked Apple." It is, in fact, something more than clever, but how much more is a matter for debate...