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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Glee Club. When Dr. Davison and his followers decided last autumn that "Australia" and "Gridiron King" had outworn their welcome as constant features on the concert programs, the instant accusation was raised. "Yes, the Glee Club has turned high-brow. They won't sing anything but classical stuff." Graduates became worried about the fate of a chorus from Cambridge that did not sing Fair Harvard upon every possible occasion, and that had fallen in with the spirit of the times in excerpting from their repertoire "Here's to Johnny Harvard, Fill him up a full glass!" The prospects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSICAL OR POPULAR? | 6/8/1920 | See Source »

...third angle we think of is that perhaps the reviewer's taste it is that's been altered. Perhaps the alumni's contributions are as fine wit as Lampy ever filled her pages with. Perhaps it is a too-young Arnold (Matthew, not Benedict) that flays this stuff that oldsters offer. But if it is, so be it. We would rather have a regular number from the fountain pens and India ink of the Sophomores than this special spring oddity that the graduates have thrown together...

Author: By N. R. Ohara ., | Title: REVIEWER DISAPPOINTED IN LAMPY'S GRADUATE NUMBER | 5/21/1920 | See Source »

...will, though, pin a rose of Mr. Wheelwright's offering. But as for the others, it would seem that the further back they were graduated, the more they have been removed from The Stuff That Goes these days. The more the class numerals display their recency, the more do the contributions come near to being what the Lampoon now accepts. But even the best offerings could come much nearer...

Author: By N. R. Ohara ., | Title: REVIEWER DISAPPOINTED IN LAMPY'S GRADUATE NUMBER | 5/21/1920 | See Source »

James Montgomery Flagg played a mean trick on Lampy. All he drew for it was his signature. The rest of his stuff was an editorial that looked funny in the Lampoon because it wasn...

Author: By N. R. Ohara ., | Title: REVIEWER DISAPPOINTED IN LAMPY'S GRADUATE NUMBER | 5/21/1920 | See Source »

...superiority without unnecessary trials and has promised to forget all cuts for the day. We don't know where we're going--but what's the odds? We wouldn't get there if we had a pocket map. Just send your cup and tuck away some of the Right Stuff for future use. Then stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TURN OUT! 1920 | 5/21/1920 | See Source »

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