Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The cover of this number is an example of the above. Seldom has Lampy offered a more professional bit, combined with so apt a title, though I humbly suggest that you can't hunt Tad's Bulldog with such antique firearms.
The prologue fails to convince you that you are really through the adds, but perhaps it would be unfair to give it the necessary punch since one more sheet of the art camouflage is still to be hurried by. In fact the business board, whose numbers look sufficient to handle...
Of the art, the centerpieces (I hope the dainty dish is poisoned) and a small cut including his Majesty Arthur, are rather fine pieces of drawing. The latter seems to have sneaked in on that estimable quality alone. Merwin's "If Harvard were run by Yale" is a really humorous...
The "drool" to call it by its Record title, is inclined to have nothing to do with the issue and in places does seem a bit trite. This is only to be expected when one considers how carefully the subject has been combed for years, only to dig out the...
Oliver Herford, as might be expected, leads the field against his less experienced fellow contributors. However his is far from the only good piece written, witness the "Diary of Unstable Gentleman's an excellent thing in the way of humorous prose.