On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress. |
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Page 13
... dollars by 1933 , and that industrial activity would fall to 57 percent of the average figure for the boom years of the previous decade . ' He would have been horrified if he had known then that the Depression would last a decade and ...
... dollars by 1933 , and that industrial activity would fall to 57 percent of the average figure for the boom years of the previous decade . ' He would have been horrified if he had known then that the Depression would last a decade and ...
Page 30
... dollar . This would be followed by a massive recon- struction program , international agreements for trade , exchange , and investment , and after recovery the return to a sound gold standard . In My Discovery of the West in 1937 ...
... dollar . This would be followed by a massive recon- struction program , international agreements for trade , exchange , and investment , and after recovery the return to a sound gold standard . In My Discovery of the West in 1937 ...
Page 49
... dollars - anyway , a whole lot . And then it happened years and years after , when I had gone to Montreal to teach at McGill ( it was in 1902 ) , that I saw in the papers that the Sarmatian was in port ; in fact I found that she still ...
... dollars - anyway , a whole lot . And then it happened years and years after , when I had gone to Montreal to teach at McGill ( it was in 1902 ) , that I saw in the papers that the Sarmatian was in port ; in fact I found that she still ...
Page 52
... at about thirty or forty dollars an acre , but an acre down at the lake shore is worth , say , a couple of thousand , and you can't get it anyway . Our own farm with its buildings was , I will 52 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
... at about thirty or forty dollars an acre , but an acre down at the lake shore is worth , say , a couple of thousand , and you can't get it anyway . Our own farm with its buildings was , I will 52 ON THE FRONT LINE OF LIFE.
Page 55
... dollars and fifty cents a bushel in the Crimean War and the farmer , suddenly enriched , was able to add another mortgage and built a brick house those real brick houses that give the motorist the impression that all farmers are rich ...
... dollars and fifty cents a bushel in the Crimean War and the farmer , suddenly enriched , was able to add another mortgage and built a brick house those real brick houses that give the motorist the impression that all farmers are rich ...
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