Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a crowd which thronged around the second team diamond and cheered until it could no more the bruised and bespattered, but doughty CRIMSON nine fought a heroic uphill fight to down their traditional Lampoon rivals by the conventional score of 23 to 2 in one of the most exciting and rugged battles which Soldiers Field has ever witnessed in all its decades of existence...
...Lampooners tried hard to halt the tremendous onslaught of terrific clouting which the team from 14 Plympton Street uncorked, but even the old, but able Robert Leader "Lefty" Lampoon was unable to stop the barrage of base hits which rained down from the bats of the CRIMSON cohorts...
...scheduled regatta in the Gloncester dories which was to have been held before the game was postponed until a late hour in the evening because the Metropolitan police thought it would be unwise for 16 Lampoon editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...
...welkin rang in proverbial style at Gerry's Landing up the Charles yesterday evening as final preparations for the tornadic CRIMSON-Lampoon regatta, scheduled for 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, were completed. Merwomen prinked, pollywogs warbled, as two specially designed Gloucester herring chasers were launched with solomn rites on the star-flecked upper reaches of the local stream...
...victory for the slugging, slamming, slaughtering CRIMSON nine will follow the heels of the naval encounter. Robert Lampoon, stalwart stroke of the Mt. Auburn Street shell, will as usual be on the mound for the jester nine. It will be the diminutive southpaw's twenty-eighth attempt to turn back the board of Plympton Street bingles, and it will be his twenty-eighth failure. Despite the doomed position of his mates, the twirley was in good spirits last night, and it is thought that the little optimist actually hopes to hold his opponents total down to 21 or even...