Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
...connection with the remarks of an English reviewer of the current Lampoon it is not irrelevant to scan the English conception of a university's humorous magazine...
...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...
Since it is avowedly "American", even containing slang expressions which had their American heyday some four years ago it cannot be taken as the English counterpart of the Lampoon. The English, however, should also be warned that the Lampoon is far from the typically American undergraduate comic publication. For such examples one must seek one of the many professionally collegiate periodicals...
...reviewer of the Lampoon commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...