Word: poons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a format close to that of the revolutionary New York tabloid-crusader, the Poon will crusade for many improvements in society. One of the main objects of attack and exposure will be the Law of Diminishing Returns, which the parody issue will demand be repealed...
...crusade will be conducted against inflamable collars, as well. Reason for the attack on the non-fire-proof neckwear will relate to the war: 'Poon editors feel that if a soldier, wearing an inflammable collar is shot in the neck, he may well suffer from severe burns...
...cinema "worsts" of the year. For a month nothing happened. Then the shrewd press agent of one of the forty or so actors and actresses given the Hobbsian Academy award saw the potentiality of the article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that was not staged and pre-arranged. This lone incident in which Harvard was not made to look silly reached a climax when some Hollywood bigwig offered to let Ann's next picture hold its world premiere at the U.T. with...
...picture in the papers last spring, and thanks to a shrewd and enterprising public relations man, one Bernie Kambers, she was doing right well by herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since...
...spite of these numerous disadvantages, the editors have come to feel a certain attachment to the depressing place. To this day each graduating 'Poon man takes home a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful President, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...