Word: lampooning
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Some 23,002 members of the Lampoon and CRIMSON will meet today bon the fields of friendly strife, as the annual all Garbage weekend opens for the 23rd time in two years...
Next day the Crimson trumpeted the news. In a straight-faced story, it solemnly reported that its old campus rival, the Lampoon, had given the Russians its ibis, the sacred bird that has stood on the Lampoon roof for 43 years-off & on. But as everyone knew, it was all a hoax, perpetrated by the Crimson itself. Cried one Lampoon staffer, as he entered negotiations to get his bird back: "The Crimson men have no imagination. This was just addleheaded vandalism...
...This is going back on the roof of the Lampoon building," said the youth as he brushed reporters aside to get into a taxi that had been waiting for him throughout the interview...
...bird had been foisted on the Russians as the American version of Picas so's peace dove by the Lampoon's rival campus publication, the daily CRIMSON. Gentle spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humor to Tsarapkin at his Park Ave. headquarters...
...told him I was sorry for the confusion," said the handsome young heir to one of New York's greatest real estate fortunes. "The Lampoon doesn't believe in diplomatic incidents and we've always managed to keep fairly well out of any political disputes...