Word: interiority
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...which Lampy has been quick to perceive and he has striven to prepare a feast of humour at which Anthony Comstock would not have blushed to sit down. Occasionally a quip becomes recalcitrant and breaks loose, only to be swallowed up again by full page close-ups of the interior of the Lampoon building. But this is, after all, only what is to be expected in a Christmas number, and there are frequent flashes of decided Jevity, such as an unintentional likeness of Professor Rand performing on skiis, a clever whack at the Nominating Committee and a geographical joke...
Danger In Unpeopled Interior...
...same time Australia realizes that we can not permanently hold a country as large as the United States with a population not equal to that of New York city. Our greatest danger is our unpeopled interior. We are in this respect in a position practically of that of the United States in the War of the Revolution. The bulk of our population is, as yours was, on the eastern seaboard. Australia therefore, welcomes immigrants wherever they may come from. We hope to fulfill the late Colonel Roosevelt's wise suggestion and 'fill up our waste spaces...
...relief from the present extravagancy of the Government, a bill is now before Congress proposing that the Department of the Interior be changed to the Department of Public Works and that all government construction of an engineering, architectural, or similar nature operated for the benefit, of the public be concentrated in that department. In order to support this bill a National Public Works Department Association has been organized at Washington which has the support of both Governor Lowden and Governor Coolidge. Professor S. W. Swain of the Engineering School is in charge of the New England campaign to further...
Nothing too bad could be said about the civic condition of Constantinople. It is very badly governed--a case of too many cooks--at present. These is extreme suffering among the refugees who have flooded the city from the Interior and Russia. Yesterday there was a tremendous demonstration by the Turks against the Allied control, but I believe they will be powerless to object forcibly to any decision whatsoever. We are hoping for a British mandate for Turkey entire, now that America has flunked out. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) GORDON ALLRORT...