Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delacorte, 38, has amassed a fortune from cheap publications. He was the second of ten children of Lawyer George T. Delacorte. His mother was also a lawyer, as were both of her parents. Publisher Delacorte attended Harvard, married in his sophomore year, failed to make a place on the Lampoon staff, made $2,000 by gathering signatures at 10 cents each on petitions for the Presidential nomination of Woodrow Wilson. He was graduated from Columbia in 1913, worked as a free lance advertising solicitor, made money in the War by soliciting advertising for all of the military camp papers...
...report later proved to be true reached the CRIMSON building late last night to the effect that a huge 15 by 30-foot green Dartmouth banner bearing a large white "D" had been placed by unknown persons on the flagstaff of the Lampoon building...
Elected to the staff of the Lampoon at a meeting last night were, on the Literary board, James Parton '34, of Rye, New York; and Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York. On the Art board Sidney Carrol '34, Brooklyn, New York, and John Wentworth Pierce '33, of Topsville. On the Business board Kip Natherby '34, New York, and Roger Haydick Weed '84, New York...
...ridiculing the plan, but despite all journalistic comment, it is now an accomplished fact. True, as a Harvard senior has pointed out in his article in the Hoot, the Houses have their disadvantages. Only time will be able to smooth over the present crudities that now afford subjects for Lampoon cartoons...
There are also on exhibition some of the lottery tickets which were sold in order to procure funds for completing Stoughton Hall and building Holworthy; the first copies of the CRIMSON and Lampoon; and an apology by the students who walked out of Commons in the year 1807 in protest against maggots in their soup...