Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Woods, of the New York Police Department; in January, Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the only North American Indian on the lecture platform; in March, Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Representative from Massachusetts, Hon. J. B. Scott, Solicitor for the State Department, Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, the noted humorist, and Attorney General Bonaparte...
...horse-less age. The front page, it is true represents Lampy's Trio speeding away from the dusty cloud which spells "gloom," and the centre-place tries to show that the automobile has certain pleasures on the side; there is still a chance, however, for the real humorist of the automobile to show us the conflict between the irate pedestrian and horseman who madly curses all drivers of cars as predatory rich and as pirates, and the wild honk-honk man who whirls from the highway all who do not drive sixty-horse power machines... The punctured tire, the wayside...
...admirably drawn cover-design of the forthcoming Lampoon introduces us to the gigantic optimism of the number-an optimism that is fortunately perennial. The more "he thinks it over, the more Lampy thinks we will win." We often find that the prophecies of the humorist are the true ones, so we have the right this time to believe in him. The two long poems in the paper, the Kipling parodies, are well done, as were the verses in the last number on the graduates who do not get seats. The Lampoon is often the most efficient exponent of undergraduate opinion...
...Book Buyer"--"Mark Twain: More than Humorist," by R. E. Phillips...
...Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs, assisted by MR. Edward C. Howlett, humorist and impersonator, will give a concert tonight for the benefit of the Prospect Union, at Union Hall, Cambridge port, at 8 o'clock. Reserved seat tickets, at thirty five cents, may be obtained at Amee's or at the Union Building. The programme will be as follows...