Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stephen Leacock is Not Yet Out of Style...
...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual reading for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock tonight. Professor Copeland will read selections from the works of Thackeray, Kipling, Leacock, and Donald Ogden Stewart. This reading has previously been held in the autumn...
...clock this evening Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union. This year's selections are quite different from last year's and will consist of extracts from Bret Harte, Kipling, Fielding, and Leacock, including Kipling's "The Bell Buoy" and "The discovery of America", a movie satire by Leacock...
...December 18, Professor C. T. Copeland will give his annual Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock in the evening. This year's selections will be quite different from last year's and will consist of extractions from Fielding. Bret Harte, Kipling, and Leacock. The meeting will be open to Union members only...