Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his first reading of the year for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union on Tuesday evening, November 29, at 9 o'clock. He will read selections from the works of Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. The reading will be primarily for Freshmen, whether members of the Union or not, but all members of the Union may attend the reading after the Freshmen have been seated. The doors will be closed and locked sharply at 9 o'clock, so that men should be prompt in arriving...
...represented, to begin with, some of Lampy's most honored honorary editors, Charles Daffa Gibson, who now owns Life and with the aid of several former Lampooners is making it at last a worthy offspring of its proud parent, contributes a sketch. Stephen Leacock submits a friendly little piece called "The Oldest Living Graduate," which is placed at the head of the number, where any contribution by America's foremost living humorist deserves to be placed. There are also verses and sketches by the genial and versatile James Montgomery Flagg...
Judging Mr. Leacock's latest effort, one finds that although each individual bit of nonsense in the collection is essentially clever, some are more spontaneous, more appealing to one's sense of the comical, than others. "Winsome Winnie" deservedly finds first place in and supplies the title to the volume...
There are times when Mr. Leacock's efforts to be funny fall a trifle flat, when his satire or exaggeration are too obvious to "get across." Thus "John and I," "The Kidnapped Plumber" (except for a few brilliant flashes) and "Buggam Grange" seem somewhat forced. "The Split in the Cabinet" on the other hand is more successful in its treatment of the English political novel...
...record all the passages that excite a more or less emphatic degree of laughter would fill several columns. Suffice it to say that Stephen Leacock needs no press notices and in "Winsome Winnie" he is at his customary best...