Here are My Lectures

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Стивен Ликок. Here are My Lectures

Here are My Lectures

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. HOW SOON CAN WE START THE NEXT WAR?

MUTUAL ESTEEM

II. RECOVERY AFTER GRADUATION. or. LOOKING BACK ON COLLEGE

WHICH WAS IT?

III. WHAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE DRAMA

OMINOUS OUTLOOK

IV. FRENZIED FICTION. FIRST LECTURE. MURDER AT $2.50 A CRIME

ALL PRESENT

V. FRENZIED FICTION (CONTINUED) SECOND LECTURE. LOVE AT $1.25 A THROB

THE TIME THAT DOESN’T FLY

VI. FRENZIED FICTION (CONTINUED) THIRD LECTURE. PASSION AT 25 CENTS A GASP

TECHNICAL TERMS

VII. MY FISHING POND

MY LADDERS. A SEQUEL TO MY FISHING POND

VIII. THE TWO MILORDS

IX. MY NEWSPAPER AND HOW I READ IT

X. WHY I AM LEAVING MY FARM. I CAN’T LIVE UP TO IT

XI. WHILE YOU’RE AT IT. EXPERT ADVICE ON KNOCKING YOUR HOUSE INTO SHAPE

XII. THE SIT-DOWN STRIKE IN MY PARLOUR. THEY CAME AND THEY WOULDN’T GO

XIII. THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. A TALK TO GRADUATE STUDENTS

TUBES OUT OF ORDER

XIV. LOOKING BACK FROM RETIREMENT

Отрывок из книги

Stephen Butler Leacock

Published by Good Press, 2021

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DENOUNCES AMERICAN GIRLS

Lady Violet Longshanks, a direct descendant of Edward I in the male line, landed yesterday from the ‘Rule Britannia’ and at once gave an interview to the press which has practically jarred society off its hinges. Lady Violet who represents the ‘haut ton’ of the oldest ‘noblesse’ and is absolutely ‘carte blanche,’ gave expression to a scathing denunciation of the American Girl. She declares that the American Girl has no manners, doesn’t know how to enter a room, still less how to get out again when she is in, and doesn’t even know how to use her feet.

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