Word: oldham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...
...back to the mills. Under a scheme set up by that sensible Scot, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, they would be paid the old wage, at least until the arbiters had made an award. When first news of this compromise reached such famed cotton towns as Manchester, Blackburn and Oldham, joyous craftsfolk paraded and snake-danced through their dingy slums, shouting "Strike's Off! STRIKE...
Manchester, Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, Blackburn, Oldham, Nelson, Glossop...
...summary: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Stanley, Cross, Everett, l.w. r.w., O'Reilly, Pie Putnam, Garrison, c. c., Holland, Lagost Giddens, Lakin, r.w. l.w., Wood, Harcourt H. Bigelow, Batchelder, l.d. r.d., Pringle, Boggs A. Bigelow, r.d. l.d., Oldham Elkins, Jackson, g. g., Goodman...
...light apple green on the cover. I believe there have been many better numbers than this, for the jokes seem to lack that subtlety which is usually the Lampoon's raison d'etre. The funniest of these to me is that on top of page 135. "The Abbot of Oldham" is mildly amusing as is also the worm epic, the last sentence of which approaches the heights of Mr. Larrabee's work in 1921. No so much can be said for the "Inkings" in this number, with the possible exception of the "Ten Guineas". The nod in the direction...