Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Funnyman headquarters on Mount Auburn Street, officers were still to be found. Gloom pervaded the Lampoon cubicle, as President William Calfee admitted that paid subscriptions totalled seven. Incorporated a few years age, the humorous publication contemplates placing a fourth mortgage on its architectural monstrosity or floating a new bond issue...
...Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
Died. Le Roy Newton Mills, 55, Mount Vernon, N. Y. lawyer who was an authority on football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a month before, William B. Lynch, Princeton fullback, expert dropkicker, Mills's pupil, dropped dead of a heart attack on the same field...
This year there has been talk of ending the long strife, and the boys on Mount Vernon Street have been dickering for peace. The result was the receipt of four passes to the games, with the implied implication that the war was over...
Those, of course, were the days of yore. Lampy jumped its circulation and reaped inestimable glory. Now on Mount Auburn Street they just sigh wistfully and think of the "good old days." But perhaps the H. A. A. "bribe," as a Lampooner expressed it, will stir them into new action...