Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster men find it necessary to purchase bicycles is a myth. The physical isolation has always proved an advantage in the minds of most Dunster men, and by measurements other than actual, it has been established that Dunster is usually closer to Boston, Wellesley, Northampton, Poughkeepsie, the Crimson, Lampoon, and other centers of generally more interesting activity than University Hall...
Delivered by a Western Union messenger in a large box, Sibi was but one more example of the CRIMSON giving the Lampoon the bird, and like the unusual goose it is, Sibi immediately began to honk and throw the funnymen into confusion...
Feeling that after all literary men should stick together, the editors of the CRIMSON extended more than the right hand of friendship last night when they lent the Lampoon a 50 pound punch bowl to help the funnymen celebrate their 60th anniversary. Not rich enough to rent one, Lampy at long last prevailed on the CRIMSON men to lend them the sacred punch bowl which has adorned the Plympton Street Sanctum these many years...
...came an Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name...
...then last Saturday in New York President Benchley of the Lampoon was handed the sacred object by a CRIMSON editor who felt like those other CRIMSON men when they lent Lampy the punchbowl. Unfortunately this funniest of the funnymen let the Ibis slip through his fingers and arrived once more in Cambridge with nothing but an old towel receptacle in place of his beloved Ibis. And now once more the Ibis has come to life and posed for photographers...