Word: dial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This review of the annual Advocate parody, which this year satirizes the Dial, was written for the Crimson by James H. Powers of the editorial staff of the Boston Globe...
...Book Reviews" and the Theatre and Art comment in the Advocate's "Dial" number march under the same umbrella of solemnity that covers the originals they imitate, but with this difference--the elf of the comic spirit is calmly wagging his ears over each...
Stealing a march on Lampy, it has undertaken, in the April number, just published, to shoot the darts of parody at "The Dial", with the result that "The Dial" is placed in much the same position as the gentleman who pulled his coat tails carefully apart and sat down upon a porcupine. For not since the famous Lampoon edition of "The Transcript" has a literary parody so gloriously funny appeared among the University undergraduate publications...
...Advocate's "Dial" number will be worth keeping for the things it leaves unsaid as well as for those it has committed to print. All the familiar procession of "The Dial's" characteristics has been passed in review in the preparation of this frolic. Particularly its solemn and desperate determination to be ultra about everything--poetry, essays, short stories, Parisian correspondence, and contemporary art and letters...
Messrs. Bower and McKenzie were strenuous advocates of acceptance of the Henry Ford bid. Democrat Dial rendered some assistance to the Administration in the last Congress. All five will receive a minimum compensation of $30 per diem...