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...present from going completely under when their back teeth were floating. Under the new regime, however, it appears that at least the invaluable Bob Lampoon keeps semi-sober and acts in the joint capacity of managing editor and wash-room attendant, and that as a result a more palatable brand of humor is on sale at Felix's the following week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURGE OF HUMORS USED IN "NEW YORKER" PARODY PRODUCED BY LAMPOON | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...their way through the class room, the Vagabond will drowsily clutch his bottle and enjoy a brief nap in preparation for an evening of relaxation from the strain of being intellectual among the greater immortals. For, although the Pudding show comes every year, it is not always with the brand of music and dancing that accompany the present show. So with the best of intentions he hopes that some kind-mortal will notice his weary figure on the steps outside the Pudding Club House at about 8.15 o'clock tonight, and help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

...rate, I venture the guess that Mr. Milstead with all his deep rooted Ku Klux Klan brand of patriotism and desire to die for his country, did his fighting during the World War in the Battle of the Living Room, or certainly in the Guerre de la Chambre de Couche . . . IRA HODES New York, N. Y. Born in, fought and bled, and like hundreds of thousands of other non Ku Klux Klanners ready at a moment's notice to fight again for our United States of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Brand's paragraph in Who's Who says: 'Widely known for campaign against extravagance in highway building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burnt Brand | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Between banquets and lectures, at Oslo, the delegates and His Majesty and Crown Prince Olaf attended gala performances at the National Theatre of six Ibsen plays: 1) Brand (1866), the tragic story of a clergyman who places duty to God majestically above earthly love but is killed by an earthly avalanche; 2) The League of Youth (1869), one of Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: 1828 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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