Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, the Lampoon's policy to make the paper as distinct as possible from the Natchez (Tenn.) Polytechnic "Blowpipe" and the Princeton (N. J.) "Tiger". But, I think, that in the fervid ness of these utterly admirable intentions the editors have lost sight of the fact that a good humorous weekly should be funny and carry good drawings...
Another strange sight is the displacement of the traditional still life vases and fruits by the cocktail shaker, lemon and square-shouldered gin bottle with Gordon on the label...
...they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...
...city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
...through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature to refuge in the wilderness, singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle eyes and mouth whipped to a black pulp by the K. K. K. before he is released...