Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight innings yesterday afternoon the Lampoon baseball team displayed a clever brand of diamond strategy--exceptionaly clever, in fact, for seldom in its baseball history has the Mt. Auburn establishment of humorous note produced a nine which could so long hold in check the slugging forces of the CRIMSON. For eight innings Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, ruled supreme from the eminence of the mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths...
...result, inevitable from the first, was terrible to behold. Strong men fainted, and one ill-starred lampoon sympathizer died from grief and pity as he beheld the sweeping avalanche of CRIMSON tallies pulverize lampoon hopes, annihilate lampoon hurlers, and bury the puny lampoon total of two runs under a score far beyond the wildest aspirations of mere mortal batters and base runners. After the thunderburst of journalistic prowess had finally spent itself, after the wreckage had been cleared away enough for the umpires to discover the battered remains of what had once been lampy's proud diamond hope...
...lampoon hit the ball squarely and sometimes beyond home plate, the fielding, though ragged in spots, was on the whole determined and vigorous, but nothing could stop the sheer power of the CRIMSON willow wielders--willow wielders who felt that they were being cheated of their rightful score their tradition bound prerogative...
...Lampoon CRIMSON event is one which, if for no other reason is laudable on account of its in time qualities and the moral certainty that--come what may--the victor will be the same. In other athletic contests there is a disturbing element of chance. But today there are no upsets. An Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors...
...sauntered slowly over to morning chapel he was still in an agony of doubt. Solomon was a bigger man than he. He had been on the Lampoon, and had been the beau ideal of Radcliffe for four years, called the waiters in the Sahara by the first names, had been in the first fifteen in the Dramatic Club...