Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Ipswitch Tweedle contains the following: "Many a son of Ipswitch arose with a start this morning to discover the most unusual happening. It seems that the Piffle, Ipswitch's comic magazine, had grown tired of literary wit and had taken to more obvious measures. Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired...
...from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition with a parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence of discretion...
...fifty years "Lampie" has done its best to sate the appetites of lovers of Punchian wit. And now that the gods of finance have doomed it to oblivion, the CRIMSON will not be alone in regretting the passage of a bird so rare as the famed Ibis of Mt. Auburn Street. For the patriarchal purveyors of discretion whose efforts at enforcement have recently disturbed these young Benchleys in their better moments will feel the loss even more keenly than Lampie's more firmly established contemporaries. And many a lonely subscriber whose diet for years has consisted of the Transcript...
...forces in salient satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...
...never attained great success as a physician, although his contributions to medicine were well recognized in the profession. Even when his literary interests again became predominant, he continued as professor at the Harvard Medical School, teaching anatomy until 1882. Into medicine he took his literary talents, turned his biting wit against homeopathy, enlivened his teaching so that it is said his lectures were placed late in the afternoon because no other professor could keep the students awake at that time of day. During the greater part of his life he was an occasional poet; wrote three novels...