Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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There is no doubt that Mr. Leacock is supreme in his particular field of literature. No one but he can paint such successful cartoons of modern foibles and conventions, so delightfully satirical yet withal so absurdly true. The imaginative sketches he conceives abound in unconscious witticisms, in masterly touches of...
Besides this fact, there is also the consideration that the money which was turned over to the government was drawn in most cases from funds which would otherwise have gone to promote the expansion of trade and industries. Such a consequence is unavoidable when the government's revenues are drawn...
There have been many suggestions made as to some remedy for this situation. Postponement of the day for payment of the taxes; the demand that inventory losses be considered in abatement of profits; the proposal of a final-sales tax; these are some of the plans mentioned at the hearing...
Stephen Leacock has added once more to the rapidly growing library of his literary travesties. In his latest book, entitled "Winsome Winnie," the great American humorist presents a series of new Nonsense Novels which seem destined further to enhance his popularity with that very large sphere of the public who...
Judging Mr. Leacock's latest effort, one finds that although each individual bit of nonsense in the collection is essentially clever, some are more spontaneous, more appealing to one's sense of the comical, than others. "Winsome Winnie" deservedly finds first place in and supplies the title to the volume...