Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Hibben of Princeton, who will cover the game for the advertisers in the Harvard Lampoon, when questioned by reporters regarding the game, said: "I see no reason for the odds being 5 to 1 on the Harvards, for in a game like this it is always possible for the metrical breaks to decide victory. It looks like a swell clash. May the best team...
...believe, something less than two years ago that we suggested in these olumns that if the Lampoon were going to continue to shout "present" or even "accounted for" in the ranks of the current comics, the best thing it could do was to hoof it to the nearest Liggetts and insert its savings in a tidy stock of Enos Fruit Salts or some equally efficacious cathartic...
...nights on Mount Auburn Street, cork helmits were a necessity much as they were in any British tropical outpost, that is, to keep those present from going completely under when their back teeth were floating. Under the new regime, however, it appears that at least the invaluable Bob Lampoon keeps semi-sober and acts in the joint capacity of managing editor and wash-room attendant, and that as a result a more palatable brand of humor is on sale at Felix's the following week...
...current issue of the Lampoon (and have a care you don't get inferior brand with the "New Yorker" lables) is almost entirely the result of the energies of four contributors, Hichborn, the present Ibis, Blackburn, Batchelder, and the bilingual, and ambidexterous Mr. Churchill who serves the ridiculous in two disseparate fields, as an editor of the CRIMSON and as continuous contributor to Lampy's columns...
...Lampoon can continue to produce issues in the current vein there is every reason to believe that it will regain the prestige it acquired with the publication of its "Transcript" issue and its still more celebrated and creditable Lasky number. That it should again play a ponderable part in Cambridge life must be the ambition of every editor, and a few New Yorker parodies would serve as admirable pick-me-ups to cure the hangover from which it has suffered. What Lampy needs now is not salts, but a few tall ones to keep up its good, nay, excellent spirits...