Word: goodâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good??? but Dickens! Why? For the reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based on a deep understanding of the human mind and a sympathy for human frailty. If only more of our present day writers would turn their attention to the picturing of individual characters and spend some time...