Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclaimed the public ironically, " what the newspapers think is important! The editorials go, but the comic strips and the scandal stories stay." "Now you do not see," answered the newspapers. " We have been printing combined papers. News is news; it belongs to all of us. But our opinions are individual. It never would do to print Republican editorials in a paper carrying several Democratic journals among its printed titles- or vice versa. We combined our acts; we could not mingle our personalities...
...Lipton offered a trophy to be competed for by the fishing fleets of New England and Canada, enthusiastic shouts arose from the throats of American yachtsmen from Eastport to Key West. It was most earnestly hoped that the fisherman's races would not degenerate into a series of the comic opera flascos that marked the course of the contests for the America's Cup some seasons age. Then, it will be remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race. If the weather...
Greenwich Village Follies. A spirited, sumptuous display of color and talent with a good deal of extraordinary dancing to paprika it?two mirthful comic acrobats, the Mandells, Daphne Pollard, the laugh-provoking vaudevillian of the piece, some lavishly-staged song numbers, good voices, splendid direction, noteworthy speed. Not quite as laughable in its high spots as the Music...
...have seen it in theatres and in the publications" he said, "and the Lampoon wishes to take its place in the world, not just as another college magazine, but as a publication that will be recognized as one of the most decent as well as the most original comic magazines in the United States...
This policy has been carried out in the first issue of the season, the Freshman number. If the policy is consistently carried out, it may mark a new era in the publication of college comic papers since the Lampoon is not only the oldest and one of the most influential humorous publications in the United States, but also has one of its members J. McK. Kimball '24, as president of an association of college humorous magazines formed last spring