Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girls of Radcliffe had recently been slurred by the Lampoon (Harvard funny paper). Editors of the Crimson were in high hopes that a feminine sparkle or two would find its way into Crime to justify Radcliffe, give the lie to the leering Lampoon...
There were other examples of collegiate waggery, astounding when one considered that they were the product of the feminine intellect. Radcliffe had turned the trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...
...these arguments advanced in behalf of the accused could stand it would mean that a private could berate his captain, a major could lampoon his colonel, with the result that discipline would vanish and the Army become...
Having just brought one social conflict to a hasty conclusion, the intrepid Harvard Lampoon launches forth upon another in its current issue in which it attacks in jocose but vigorous style the "social Freshmen" who have been attending Boston dances in alarmingly large number of late...
...many years it has been a Boston tradition that Freshmen should not be invited to debutante dances. Of late, however, hostesses have been departing from this rule, to the consequent alarm of the parents of Freshmen, the Dean's office, and the Lampoon. Lampy's protest is given in part below...