Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School, he was a member of his Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa. Albert Good-will Churchill, of Livermore, California, was elected Ivy Orator of the Class of 1930. He prepared for Harvard at Browne and Nichols School. An editor of the CRIMSON, he is also president of the Lampoon...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
...interesting sidelight of Saturday night's arrests was uncovered when the addresses of the phone numbers published in alleged bootleggers' advertisements in the CRIMSON and Lampoon a month ago were compared with the addresses given by the alleged liquor vendors., One, that of Morris Willis, at 39 Schuyler Street. Roxbury, was identical with that of phone number Garrison 2198, advertised under the name of "Mr Rogers...
When these advertisements appeared, the assistant district attorney in charge of prohibition enforcement refused to take any action against the editors of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, dismissing the whole affair as a college prank. It could not be learned last night if an investigation was now being contemplated, in the light of developments of the past week...
There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...