Word: digester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other liberty that young men of Harvard took was more serious. The editors of The Harvard Lampoon (fortnightly funny paper) furnished their subscribers and the Boston newsstands with a familiar-looking magazine called the Literary Digest (Lampoon). The cover design of this magazine was a travesty of Emanuel Levitze's famed painting Washington Crossing the Delaware...
...illicit magazine did, however, penetrate beyond Boston. Reading it, many felt that apologies to the National Flag and to public purity were by no means all the debt the Lampoons editors had incurred. They had roundly insulted the real Literary Digest. They had insulted the publishers of the real Literary Digest. They had insulted, moreover, the readers of the real Literary Digest-that large portion of the public* that is grateful to the Digest for its weekly service of clipping, collating and publishing, at exhaustive length and with admirable lack of editorial color, a significant mass of opinion on news...
...newsstands, Members of the Lampoon board rushed out and, only a little ahead of the police, themselves withdrew all but five or six copies, which fell into the hands of the police. In their eagerness to confiscate every available copy of the Lampoon parody of the Literary Digest the police took over a supply of the genuine Digest, but soon returned them. Speaking of the search conducted by the police agents, Felix, the proprietor of a Harvard Square newsstand, asserted, "This is the most exciting day we have for 15 years." The proprietor of another establishment, at the corner...
...cover of the Literary Digest Number of the Lampoon is similar to the picture of Washington crossing the Delaware. There is no desecration of the flag--actual or intended...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...