Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that the Lampoon spends all of its meagre talent on its special issues. The current number, for instance, the St. Patrick's number, though much less amusing than a magazine ought to be, where the vigorous and noisy wit and humor of youth should run riotously, is undeniably better than the numbers unadorned by Mr. Child's interesting covers...
...board, who have just completed their first special issue. It is not certain, however, that they need excuses. Loveis of tradition would say that they were irreproachable, for they have maintained all the safe, conservative, comfortable principles so unbecoming to humorists, so ingrained in the foundations of the Lampoon. A custom can become a tradition in five years at Harvard, a practice may become a rigid rule in one year of Lampoon usage...
Eddie Cantor maintains that a humorist needs a sympathetic audience before be will venture new tricks. Can this account for the even sameness of Irish spirit which pervades the magazine? Certainly there is no boldness there, and even the Irish jokes have been diluted with un-Irish college humor, Lampoon variety, which seems quite out of place against the dull emerald background. The whole presents the appearance of a catalogue of sure-fire "Pat and Mikes" for the ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville performance...
...drawings the best is the one illustrating the Lampoon's advertisement; the most interesting is the one with the caption, "St Patrick's Day Is Greeted by Appropriate Ceremonies." This latter is in the manner of the Dial artists--full of exotic emotion and of strange technique (can the artist be satirizing?). The majority of the sketches, though, are amateurish originals or uncomplimentary copies. Often the jokes seem made to fit the drawings; or at least the one seldom fits the other. The ideas in the cover drawing are clever, but the drawing itself is careless...
Those years saw the annual baseball games between the Cercle Francais and the Deutscher Verein carried on with as much equanimity and friendship as is found in the CRIMSON Lampoon games of today; but the war came, and the German Club automatically ceased to exist...