Word: behn
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...serious verse that is good, an editorial that smacks of Lampy's halcyon days and a free translation into Chinese English of the Jimmian equivalent of "two threes" as "one couple in the royal bath for three exalted minutes"--which is not altogether Comstockian. Mr. Choate's and Mr. Behn's drawings are, as ever, exceptionally good, and there is a mildly amusing article on the annoying miscellany of "drives," as well as a Biblical distortion that is funny in spots. On the whole the number is a pleasant one, calculated to "tickle the great American public under the great...
...Memorial Hall:--8.30-9.15, P. Palmer, P. G. Hovey; 9.15-10, R. B. Metcalfe, W. W. Church; 12-12.45, W. Y. Peters, C. C. Macomber; 12-45-1.30, W. Gale, M. Gratwick; 5.30-6, H. Behn, D. Ferguson...
...spring elections held last night the Lampoon elected to the literary board Harry Kay Behn Jr., '22, of Phoenix, Arizona; Sidney Arthur Gross Occ., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Winslow Whitman '21 of Evanston. Illinois; and to the business board Peirce Louis Romaine '22 of New York...
...Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium of a successfully irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate might well be replaced by a homelier and more familiar apple. In general, the verse in this...