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Word: poon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman, had stolen its bird, so they kidnapped him and took him to an abandoned house in Ipswich. They took his clothes from him for a night, then gave them back and lashed him to a pot-bellied stove for a group picture. Shortly thereafter, Ratner escaped, and the 'Poon soon recaptured its bird...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Threskiornis | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...April of 1953. This time, however, Thresky was not dragged around to visit strippers and barbers. Instead, he was presented to Semyon K. Tsarapkin, deputy representative of the USSR in the United Nations, to be placed on one of the spires of the new Moscow University. At this, the 'Poon became irritated, and demanded that the Russians return Thresky. Petitions protesting the 'Poon's breach of international courtesy were circulated in the Yard and at Radcliffe, but a 'Poon delegation raced to New York and retrieved their prize from the confused Russians...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Threskiornis | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...Spring of 1954 and 1956 Thresky again disappeared mysteriously only to be photographed at various local points of interest. He was returned to the 'Poon offices last June, but will probably not attain his former heights until the 'Poonsters scrape up $45 to cover the cost of resoldering him to his perch. How long he will stay up thereafter is uncertain...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Threskiornis | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...Lampoon took its own form of revange Saturday on the young Tiger who had proclaimed too loudly that he was just that. The 'Poon editors requisitioned his tiger skin, reportedly worth $400, and sent their own man inside it out on the field at halftime. The new tiger appeared with the Band, borne on a stretcher and covered with the Princeton flag that had mysteriously disappeared from the New Jersey campus just a year...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Parody, Cat Appear Briefly in Downpour | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...parody of the Massachusetts Bay Charter referred to Curley as "J. Curley, alias J. Crookyde," and mentioned that the mayor "left jail to serve another term as mayor." 'Poon President Paul Brooks '31 hastily rushed to offer the magazine's apologies to the mayor. The mayor, because of "the complete and abject apology of the president of the Harvard Lampoon, in view of his extreme youth and the effect that court proceedings might have on his future . . .," accepted the apologies...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: 1930's Final College Years: Talkies, Socialism, Prohibition | 6/14/1955 | See Source »

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