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Word: lampooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous Lampoon elm will be but 25 feet high it was announced last night by the Lampoon Board, which held its first meeting yesterday to discuss solemnly business matters. This announcement came as a surprise, for it had been previously stated that the tree would be 75 feet tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY VOTES TO MAKE ELM TREE SHORTER AND FUNNIER | 10/17/1924 | See Source »

...following review of the Freshman Number of the Lampoon was written for the CRIMSON by David T. W. McCord '21, former president of the Lampoon, and now editor of the Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST LAMPY GIVES OLD PRESIDENT PAIN | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...rather a pity that the Freshman number of the Lampoon, something supposedly, to agitate the thoracic vertebra of the very youngest class, should be the first number of the year. It is generally such a lame affair, for which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST LAMPY GIVES OLD PRESIDENT PAIN | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...Japanese Freshman"--and quite the best bit of prose in the issue--would be more in order if made to the original author of the Schoolboy Epistles, Mr. Wallace Irwin, rather than to the fictitious and mysterious Ervine. Having been wholly disagreeable thus far, may we exhort the Lampoon Editors to pull together and return with the next number to work that will lift the eyebrows of 1928 and prove that Lampy is still what it has been since 1876--our first and foremost college weekly

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST LAMPY GIVES OLD PRESIDENT PAIN | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

Humerists at Harvard may prove their absurd ability when the Lampoon opens its competitions for the literary and business departments of its board this evening. Candidates will assemble at the Lampoon Building today at 7 o'clock, entering by the sacred side door. At this meeting explanation of the work will be given together with details of the competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY PUTS SACRED SIDE DOOR OFF THE LATCH FOR CANDIDATES | 9/26/1924 | See Source »

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