Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WINNOWED WISDOM - Stephen Leacock-Dodd, Mead...
...Recently the wife of Stephen Butler Leacock, Canadian political economist and wit, died of cancer. Now he is devoting his wealth and writing ability to research and prevention of that disease (see TIME...
...cancer died recently Beatrix Hamilton Leacock, who married in 1900 Stephen Butler Leacock, professor of political economy at McGill University, Montreal. Far gone with the disease, she had journeyed to Liverpool to enlist the colloidal lead solution treatment of Professor William Blair Bell. But he could do her no good. She was one of the 250 he ministered to, one of the 200 he could not benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come...
...Senate on prohibition came, however, from Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, a wet, who knows how to stir up trouble and is pretty sure he knows how the people of New Jersey stand. He delivered a long oration favoring modification of the Volstead Act. He quoted Stephen Leacock...
Professor Copeland, whose reading will take place in the Upstairs Dining Room of the Union at 8.30 o'clock next Tuesday night, will read from Kipling, Milne, Leacock, and Thackery. The exact passages are not announced as yet, but will probably be in the spirit of the Christmas season. The acoustics of the Upstairs Dining Room are better than those of the main hall and the Professor will insist on the doors being locked at 8.30 o'clock sharply to prevent interruption...