Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program has not yet been announced. Last year Professor Copeland read from the works of James Stephens, Robert Browning, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...
Professor Copeland's program will consist of "Desire," a sketch by James Stephens, and selections from the works of Robert Browning. Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, has announced the subjects for his annual Christmas reading. He will read "Desire," a new sketch by James Stephens, author of the celebrated "Crock of Gold," and selections from Browning, Benchrey and Leacock...
Perhaps it is too much to hope that among ten thousand thesis writers at Harvard there may be that Cantabrigian Ed Wynn, that perfect fool who, like another Leacock, will bring nonsense laurels to the American university...
MONEY WRITES!-Upton Sinclair-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Once again fuming, foaming Upton Sinclair girds himself beyond all reason, leaps on his lame but willing steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty...