Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the Fiftieth Anniversary number of the Lampoon, which appears on the stands today, was written for the Crimson by Lucius Beebe...
Among the special events on February 9 will be relay races between the weight men and pole volters, and the high and broad jumpers. Two one-lap relays will be staged, the first between the CRIMSON and the Lampoon, which it is rumored the CRIMSON will win, and the other between the manager of the five major sports...
Know then, the Lampoon's birth is of a quality that far exceeds mere human bounds. Minerva like, it sprang fullarmed from the inspired heads of nine most Jovian wits, nine muses of the day. No CRIMSON midwife fostered it, and it has thrived on jests more recent than the daily news you render us in your dull, homely columns. Let this letter stand as a testimonial to your obloquy...
...shocked the world by bringing forth a lusty, roly-poly boy who was to prove himself the plague of wit and humor. Who was his father no one knew, though there were many guesses. But in commemoration of the joke his mother played upon society, the child was called Lampoon...
...ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic...