Word: joker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon first came to police attention when a practical joker called them October 28 to complain about the editors' parody of mid-western humor magazines, The Pontoon. The police immediately had all copies of the publication removed from newsstands...
...Pontoon first came to police attention through a phone call on the morning of the Dartmouth game by a practical joker who claimed to be a Radcliffe girl's mother. Police then seized all copies from newsboys and newsstands and planned criminal action...
...petition a vote on crucial issues. With two hundred signers, a three-quarter vote then bound the Council to act in accordance with the student opinion. Dropping the provision will enable the Council to act more efficiently, its leaders tell us. No longer will it be bothered by the "joker element" of students that introduces crackpot referenda...
...Council obviously has acted on the strength of its experience with the semi-serious abolitionist movement of last spring, the only "joker" referendum that has shown up in recent years. But one disagreeable occurrence is not enough to warrant revision of the constitution, which is designed to provide general control of the Council's activity. Some students may abuse their right to control the Council, but this is no excuse for eliminating the right entirely...
...rarely does Editor Weyer get trapped by a nature faker. Once he printed a letter about a whale swallowing a man, written by "Egerton Y. Davis Jr.," an "eyewitness." A reader hastened to point out that the "eyewitness" was using a pseudonym of the late great physician and practical joker Sir William Osler. What Weyer should also have known: there is no authenticated instance in natural history of a whale swallowing a man. Last December, Weyer had his printing ink mixed with tangy pine chemicals to give the magazine an "outdoor" smell. When allergic readers wrote watery-eyed letters...