Word: jack-o-lantern
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...Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree illegal but putting his father's brewery out of business...
...classmate recalling young Geisel said, "Everything Ted did seemed to be a surprise, especially to him." Who knew the source of his strange whimsy? One of his Jack-O-Lantern contributions was a news story on "the Zimkowitz annual baseball game" in the form of a box score: 19 Zimkowitzes in two columns of agate type. Nineteen, not 18: Yes. One family member had "batted for Zimkowitz in the ninth." There are also hints of Seuss creatures to come, like a two-legged elephant, with shoes. The chimerist in Ted responded to the elephant paradox: a creature that was both...
...Summers makes for a great jack-o-lantern. (“Clip ’n Save: Jack O’Larry,” October...
...jack-o-lantern on the head of the John Harvard statue...
...ever want to pay Kevin a visit, you'll know just where to find him. I'll be sitting in front of a football game on TV, eating a thick slice of pumpkin pie and carving a jack-o-lantern, "looking for fun and feeling groovy...