Word: patrick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shame--An' ye remimber the Sint Patrick's number uv a month...
Then he returned from New Orleans. He had laid low one Patrick Ryan in seven blood-red rounds. He, the "Strong Boy of Boston," was champion heavyweight pugilist...
...unfortunate that the Lampoon spends all of its meagre talent on its special issues. The current number, for instance, the St. Patrick's number, though much less amusing than a magazine ought to be, where the vigorous and noisy wit and humor of youth should run riotously, is undeniably better than the numbers unadorned by Mr. Child's interesting covers...
...Irish jokes and parodies, the ones worth mentioning are: the imitation headlines under "The Day"; the "Boston Society Page in Fifty Years," the most consistently clever and almost brilliant contribution; the "Life of St. Patrick," which is good only in spots; and "Abie's Irish Potato," which is saved from brutality by several original lines...
...drawings the best is the one illustrating the Lampoon's advertisement; the most interesting is the one with the caption, "St Patrick's Day Is Greeted by Appropriate Ceremonies." This latter is in the manner of the Dial artists--full of exotic emotion and of strange technique (can the artist be satirizing?). The majority of the sketches, though, are amateurish originals or uncomplimentary copies. Often the jokes seem made to fit the drawings; or at least the one seldom fits the other. The ideas in the cover drawing are clever, but the drawing itself is careless...