Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silent tribute to Mr. Curley's redoubtable power, that the daily papers, those undoubted true voices of the people, stood behind him in pouring down imprecations of wrath upon the editors of the Lampoon, who, it seems, pinched him where it hurt...
...daily newspapers, more circumspect than the impetuous Lampoon, dare not antagonize a whole political machine so smoothly oiled that a monkey-wrench in the Police works hardly interrupts its powerful grinding...
...interesting, if a bit discouraging, to see them bow to the powers that be, as low as they accuse the Lampoon editor of bowing. We can only surmise their laughter up their sky-flung praises of our noble mayor. Or how they may wonder dubiously how much of the Tercentennial funds actually went to glorify the founders of this commonwealth, forbears of a race which has apparently relinquished the trying reins of Boston government to a more American type of statesmen...
...editors of the Harvard Lampoon have issued a Tercentenary number which is an example of the danger of permitting adolescent minds to have control of ink and a printing press...
...feeling in the matter is not one of indignation but of deep pity for the feeble wits responsible for the exhibition of distorted taste. The mayor of Boston is a victim of the immature group that produced the Lampoon. In their childishness they have been cruel. With the conceit of callow youth, the editors have done a thing which they will recall with a sense of shame when, and if, their brains develop to the adult state...