Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Lampoon of the year is now out on the stands and a quick flip-through will give the prospective buyer the best that the magazine has to offer: its cartoons. There are two or three in the current issue which could conceivably appear in "The New Yorker" during its annual mid-summer slump and one, entitled "La Mouche," is probably the best the Lampoon has printed this year...
Robert C. Crichton '50 took the prize for his story, "Suffer the Little Children," which appeared in the December issue. The award, now in its second year, is made each May to the best work in the Lampoon, Advocate, CRIMSON, or other undergraduate publication...
Their eyes like marbles, their legs like glass, the gamest CRIMSON nine of them all fought back from certain defeat today under a lemon yellow sun, to win an embattled 23-2 decision from a gloriously fighting Lampoon team, stirred to unrivalled heights by the pre-game banning of their great little leader, Lionel (the Toy) Train...
...inexorably the cardinal sun was fleeing from the skies. Littlefellow swung and hit a towering fly ball. Surely this was an out. Here, at last, was the end of the amazing Crimson winning skein. But no, for somehow fate was riding out here today in the ruby sun. The Lampoon infield lost the ball in the miniaceous sun and while they were looking for it twenty-three CRIMSON runs scampered home...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, Mass., home of the annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...