Word: humourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally...
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