Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that the whole difficulty is finally solved by Van Cleve of Scotland Yard. All is meant to be very funny and, for the most part, lives up to its intention. Two amazing comic detectives, Clifford Dempsey and Frank McCormack, helped the audience to its happiest moments...
...Genius of the Comic Strip, which thus presided at his departure last week, was responsible for Gershwin's taking up music in the first place. In 1911, his mother's sister-in-law bought a piano. Because the promptings of that Genius told his mother to keep up with the Joneses, she bought one also. The thing had cost a lot and it was no good unless somebody learned to play it. So the Gershwin family hired a teacher for George, then 13. Came the day when he played for Max Rosen, famed violinist. Mr. Rosen patted him kindly...
...neared its end. Whether or not this is to be the concluding episode in te matter will be determined by verdict of United States District Attorney Harold P. Williams '03 when he announces today or tomorrow his decision as to the advisability of prosecuting the editors of the University comic, and by the action of a joint meeting which the Lampoon will hold today with the board of trustees...
...like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates as far back as the first Liberty Loan drive!" Now and then it makes fun of the plot, which is as a Pudding book should. The book spent a good deal of time rounding out a comic character with a weakness for cross-word puzzles, which is either over or under-played by C. T. F. B. Lyon '27. You would think that with those extra letters, he could get somewhere with crossword puzzles, but evidently...
...find it somewhat difficult to express the indignation that I feel after reading the current issue of the Bean Pot. I do not expect a comic periodical to be dignified in tone nor entirely truthful. I look for a degree of exaggeration in its columns. Existing standards condone the lack of dignity and truthfulness which characterize many of these publications...