Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after a group of Harvard Lampoon graduates had moved to New York and in 1883 founded a decorous humorous publication called Life, a Wall Street office boy arrived at their sanctum with a sketchy cartoon. He was the sort of office boy the editors of Life wanted to encourage-a hard working, impoverished Boston gentleman. The editors of Life gave Charles Dana Gibson $4 for his cartoon...
...dull, humorless, and trivial as most Ph.D. theses. Did every person who could write a stimulating editorial switch to the ill-fated Journal? If the CRIMSON board is in doubt as to the cause of its existence, I refer to page eighty of the October issue of the Lampoon...
...Harvard Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger got out a joint issue. Over the stadium at Soldiers Field a plane wrote in smoke: "H. vs. P. Good friends." After the game, the two squads dined together. Accompanied by such amenities, the first Harvard v. Princeton football game in eight years found Harvard just where it was in 1926, when Princeton's Jake Slagle ran wild and his teammates were accused of using seal rings. A recovered fumble gave Harvard's Fred Moseley a chance to reach Princeton's 49-yd. line in the second quarter. That was the only time Harvard...
Concluding a feud which has existed since 1926, the Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger announced yesterday that they will publish a joint issue Saturday before the football game. To the 6000 subscribers of the two magazines will go 64 pages of humor, a record which has not been equalled by any similar comic publication for the last six years...
...famous Lampoon elm will be but 25 feet high it was announced today. This statement came as a surprise as it was previously said by Lampooners that the tree would be 75 feet high. Upon investigation it was found that a tree 75 feet in height would completely hide the building from view...