Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richards told the editors that the mortgage was about to be foreclosed, that the printers had refused to work without pay and that the Lampoon was deeply in dept and unable to pay its bills. All the furniture and bric-a-brac belong either to former editors who have loaned them or to furniture firms. Two firms are involved, both of which intend to collect the furniture in forfeit of instalments never paid. In addition Lampy owes money to caterers, advertising agencies, engraving companies and printers and to the CRIMSON, and Lampy's sole employee, Bob Lampoon. Because of perennially...
...foundations are is a pretty bad state," Mr. Stanley Hartley of the American Society of Engineers, who has recently examined the Lampoon Building, told a CRIMSON reporter last night. "The caissons on which the foundations were set, have settled, so that serious damage would undoubtedly occur to the building unless elaborate reconstruetions were undertaken. The Lampoon editors, however, feel that the cost of such alterations would be prohibitive." Mr. Hartley expressed his concern at the possibility of the entire building, which he calls "the most attractive in Cambridge", being doomed to destruction...
Arthur Clement, of Arthur's Lunch and Smoke Shop in the basement of the Lampoon building, said last night that he would ask the holders of the mortgage to continue his lease, but would at the same time look about for a safer location with no river underneath. At that time he did not know that the building was to be sold over his head. A huge sign reading "For Sale" appeared on the Bow Street side of the turret late in the afternoon, and soon attracted a crowd...
Returning from business at five-thirty yesterday afternoon, my road leading me by the Lampoon Building. I was surprised to notice a for sale sign hung before Lampy's famous turret. You can understand my surprise when I tell you that as a former editor of the Lampoon no hint or rumor had reached my ears of the impending financial disaster which has overtaken this ancient comic paper...
Upon reaching my home in Water town I immediately got in touch with Mr. Whedon, President of the paper until its dissolution, and members of the Graduate Advisory Committee. I was deeply chagrined at their confirming the fact that the Lampoon building was for sale, and that the famous organization had issued its last publication...