Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling; but closer examination reveals a wealth of absurd details that go to make up a unique conception indeed. It is not easy to pick out any particular item that is vastly superior to the rest; most of those worth mentioning are written in conventional Lampoon style, tinged with attempted Stephen Leacockism, which, as often as not, succeeds in provoking spontaneous mirth. But such incidents as "Columbus Modernized." "The First Steamboat," and the advertisement opposite the first page, are a bit above the general average...
...America of 1616," a unique map conceived by S. P. Moorehead '22. The cartoon about the "Drive Closed," for which Merwin and McCord are responsible, hardly belongs, as yet, in an American History Number, but the clever idea it embodies more than offsets its momentary inappropriateness. Altogether, the newest Lampoon maintains its usual standard of excellence while in no way distinguishing itself by any extraordinary offering at the jester's feet...
...meeting of the Lampoon Board last night, the following were elected to hold office one year: President, Joseph Alger '22 of Brockton; Ibis--Nathaniel Chaote '22, of Framingham Center; Treasurer, Robb Hansell Sagendorph '22, of Chestnut Hill; Secretary, Bradley De Lamater Nash '23 of Brookline...
...competitions for positions on the Lampoon Board will begin directly after the Mid-Year examination period. Business candidates will report at the Lampoon Building on Mt. Auburn street on Monday, February 14th, at 8 o'clock; while all men wishing to compete for the drawing and writing departments will report at the same time and place...
...been quick to perceive and he has striven to prepare a feast of humour at which Anthony Comstock would not have blushed to sit down. Occasionally a quip becomes recalcitrant and breaks loose, only to be swallowed up again by full page close-ups of the interior of the Lampoon building. But this is, after all, only what is to be expected in a Christmas number, and there are frequent flashes of decided Jevity, such as an unintentional likeness of Professor Rand performing on skiis, a clever whack at the Nominating Committee and a geographical joke or two which banish...