Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
...description of the Old American type thus evolved is quite unlike the European and comic-sheet conception of a thrust-jawed, loud-voiced, long-skulled Nordic "American." The Old American is not a Nordic type, in the first place. He retains the physical characteristics of his British ancestors, who were just as near an Alpine type as a Nordic.* He is mesocephalic (medium-skulled, between "long" and "round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend...
Copley--"Hay Fever", at 8.20: A comic study in rudeness done in an unusual and highly refreshing manner...
Perhaps inspired by the recent literary conference staged by the Advocate, the "Princeton Tiger" has announced that he will meet in his den 25 comic college magazines of the East. The meeting is to be purely for business and the "Tiger" has announced that he will provide no recreational festivities for his guests...
...Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...