Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driven into Fogg Museum, and the geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming home early from Soldiers Field. That were pastoral felicity! But alas! to he awakened at four in the morning by the cackle of hens in the all too appropriate Lampoon Building--that would be a sad aftermath of a perfect day in rural Cambridge...
When a reviewer has said this much it would appear that he has worked out the vein. Such a vein of superficial criticism cannot serve long as a paying proposition. This does not. Whenever an antagonist meets the Lampoon he must meet it on its own playing field and under its own rules...
...Lampoon's Standards...
...Lampoon code, artificial though it is, tiresome though its products may be, is admirable. It has a standard. And, that alone is praise among "college comics," for where is the college humor magazine which can boast one of those? "No 'He and She' jokes," says Lampy. Immediately the magazine steps to the head of the class. When prohibition jokes, mother-in-law jokes, and the like are added, Lampy distances the field...
Undoubtedly we are vanquished, overcome by that glacier of tradition, which defies us. But the reviewer may triumph in the end by reproaching the Lampoon as if it were a small...