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Word: lampooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engine, as it stands now, takes the place of the famous old Lampoon engine which Bob Lampoon and his associates purchased several years ago from the town of Sandwich, when that colony on the Cape replaced its old engine with modern fire apparatus. Lampy always brought his engine to the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon ball game and at one time parked it in front of the CRIMSON building from which vantage point it pumped water on all the editors who were on the balcony. This however is the only time that the engine ever-pumped water after its purchase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carpenter Delves Into Depths of Widener to Find Model for Pudding Engine--Pump Takes Place of Lampy's Old Wagon | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Lampoon announces the election of Richard McHugh Chilson '31, of New York City, of John Boardman Page '30, of Phoenix, Ariz., and of Prescott Winkley '31, of Medford, to the Literary Board; and of John Handy Henshaw '31, of Rye, N. Y., and of James Bethune Campbell '31, of Jamaica Plain, to the Business Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Elects | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...Soglow ambitions are modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independents | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...touch that!" shouted Robert Lampoon, noted virtnoso, to a CRIME reporter whom he observed looking quizzically at his picolo. "It's my own," he added, fondling it, "and that's why I didn't dare play at the Union tonight. I'm taking awfully good care of it till St. Patrick's Day. Guess why? Why, it's the Lampoon dinner, celebrates six months peace with the police. Can I sell you a ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTER QUIZZES BIGWIGS | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

Arthur Mencken "25 disclosed recently that he is planning a solo air journey through Africa starting this fall and spending about a year on the flight. Mencken, who was a member of the University Rifle Team for two years and a Lampoon editor, is now a student in the Fordham Law School and is planning to take his bar examination this fall before his journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mencken to Make African Flight | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

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