Word: charivarious
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...custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island...
...cartoons that Daumier produced for the republican papers La Caricature and Charivari were like so many knives hurled at his enemies, the Bona-partists and the bourgeoisie. Time has dulled their politics but not their bite. The French government's selection of them on view in Manhattan last week looked at first glance like enormously artful propaganda, but an onlooker circling the gallery could forget that they were propaganda, forget that they were art, and accept them as pictures of the real thing-life in Paris a century...
...according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical...
...according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard...
...Britons last week chuckled over Punch Almanack for 1945, they saw nothing amiss: Punch, survivor of four wars and a score of Prime Ministers, was still a grinning replica of themselves. Founded in 1841 in imitation of the French Le Charivari, Punch or the London Charivari is less a funny magazine than a gently distorted mirror for Britons. Seeing his idiosyncrasies pleasantly caricatured in it, John Bull can laugh and feel satisfied-whether or not the world laughs with...