Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whedon '27, declared: "There is absolutely no truth in the story which appeared in the CRIMSON this morning. It is true that a party was held, but it was a quiet affair with no morons present. The Lampoon resents the implied slur on the reputation of the innocent turkey, who did no more than to lose her head. Incidently, a good time...
...Richards '27, Lampoon Business Manager, is quoted as saying, that although the expenses of these coming-out parties were terrific, this new departure in policy was certainly worthwhile for advertising purposes. Confidentially it is rumored that Mr. Richards is planning to go into the turkey business, since the menagerie has practically ruined his stock of new Dutch tiling...
...content with the Ibis bird, the Lampoon collected a menagerie for the week-end festivities incidental to their first barn dance. A turkey and a pig, were the guests of honor at the grand affair, thus breaking the ancient traditions, which admitted within the sacred precincts only humans, editors, and the Ibis himself...
Here comes a pause in the story, which seems difficult to explain. For it has since become known that the Lampoon dined on some sort of combination between roast pig and truffled turkey. The original menagerie, however, were obviously alive this morning; especially to the ears of any who may be unfortunate enough to reside in that section of the Gold Coast Bob Lampoon, when interviewed at a late hour last night, declared that a bird in the hand was not always worth two in the bush. There might be some clue there...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...