Word: lampian
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...balance of the issue, though often remote from the strict Lampian style, is in the main amusing and clever. "Fuzzywuzzy" offers a not inconsiderable gem whereof the appropriateness, translated into other social spheres, may meet the discerning eye, while the small skit about the birdies is delectable nonsense of the most approved Carrollian variety. "The Picnic Blues", in verse that moves easily, fills that need for gentle self-expression which tortured souls have felt since the days of the First Picnic in Eden; and the mail-order edition of Webster's exclusive and only masterpiece contains some rare specimens...
After a brief and decidedly unfriendly interchange of notes, diplomatic relations between the CRIMSON and the Lampoon have been broken off. Count Ibis, Lampian ambassador to the Court of St. Plympton, last Monday presented to the CRIMSON Foreign Secretary for Hockey a message, the tone of which utterly shattered all rules of international etiquette. The Kaiser of all the Crimsons, while regretting that he was thus forced into hostilities, answered immediately with a declaration of war. Count Ibis was given his passports yesterday morning, and a mobilization of the Crimson forces was begun at once...
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