Word: lbis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comment from the "Harvard Daily Herald", which then held the position of regular University news organ: "A screaming 'Tiger', going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum...
...CRIMSON reporter as to the Crimson of the activities which were place in the very of the cupola and flag pole, President Whedon, Lampy's heavy leader, made the following pointed statement. "This is a party sent out by the American Mountaineers Society to ascertain if the lbis has yet laid any eggs...
...fiftieth anniversary number of the Lampoon, fresh to hand, bears unhappy but strict witness to the fact that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented...
...battle of words and baseball this afternoon between the CRIMSON and the lampoon. But as a matter of fact, we have not the slightest qualm in anticipating that the score published tomorrow morning will be 23-2: It has been that for the last fifteen years. The lbis and his inky companion are certain to disagree between themselves over the contents of the latest invention the hollow bat (The lampoon has offered a prize of one dollar and a free copy of one of the issues destroyed in the Fire to the undergraduate guessing the wherefore of its hollowness...