Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Police Departments of Boston and Cambridge joined action yesterday and suppressed the Literary Digest issue of the Lampoon on the grounds of obscenity and desecration of the flag...
...first move in the Lampoon matter came at 10.30 yesterday morning when two police captains entered the Lampoon Building, forbade further sale of the current issue, and threatened confiscation of all copies on the newsstands, Members of the Lampoon board rushed out and, only a little ahead of the police, themselves withdrew all but five or six copies, which fell into the hands of the police. In their eagerness to confiscate every available copy of the Lampoon parody of the Literary Digest the police took over a supply of the genuine Digest, but soon returned them. Speaking of the search...
...unknown who is responsible for the action against the Lampoon...
...protest by J. Frank Chase, Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society is one of the theories advanced, but this is refuted by a vigorous denial by Mr. Chase. "We had absolutely nothing to do with the suppression of the Lampoon," said Mr. Chase, "We knew nothing about it; obsolutely nothing. We never had any question about it. We made no complaint and heard none. It is not our business. We concern ourselves in the houses of ill fame, opium dens, gambling houses, and so forth, but we had absolutely nothing to do with the suppression of the Lampoon...
...April number, just published, to shoot the darts of parody at "The Dial", with the result that "The Dial" is placed in much the same position as the gentleman who pulled his coat tails carefully apart and sat down upon a porcupine. For not since the famous Lampoon edition of "The Transcript" has a literary parody so gloriously funny appeared among the University undergraduate publications...