Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purveyors of discretion whose efforts at enforcement have recently disturbed these young Benchleys in their better moments will feel the loss even more keenly than Lampie's more firmly established contemporaries. And many a lonely subscriber whose diet for years has consisted of the Transcript, the Atlantic, and the Lampoon will turn in desolation to muted memories of merrier days...
...Lampoon, indeed, has too long served the American public with clean humor and clean advertising with all those fundamental forces in salient satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...
...Yorick is dead" those words have sounded down the centuries. And it is with sincere chagrin that the devoted readers of the Lampoon must echo them now. Yet perhaps, out of this debacle will come the experience needed to run an even more successful periodical. Phoenix-like another will rise from the ashes of Ibis to wing its witty way across the cerulean and appreciative heavens of a thankful Cambridge...
...Harvard Lampoon has suspended publication for an indefinite period. This bald announcement, confirmed at a late hour last night by the trustees of the organization, came as a shocking surprise to all who did not know the state of affairs on Mt. Auburn Street...
...admitted that the Lampoon had had no intention of publishing the widely advertised St. Patrick's number. The sudden meeting of the board yesterday morning at 7 o'clock was called for the sole purpose of informing the editors of the situation. Barred from the press, the assembled mob decided on one last practical joke and a parade, neither of which called forth any laughter...