Word: swanmoor
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Author. In 1876 Master Stephen Butler Leacock, aged seven, of Swanmoor, Hants, England, decided to accompany his parents to a farm in Ontario. He attended Canadian colleges and taught in one of them until 1899, when he sickened of "the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world." He pursued economics and political science in Chicago, taking his Ph. D. in 1903. McGill University has employed him ever since. You sometimes see him in this country-a stocky, gruff, mop-headed little figure sitting in the quiet corner of a hotel dining room, or booming...
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