An edition of Lanterns & lances
(1960)
Lanterns & lances
by James Thurber
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Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
How to get through the day
Midnight at Tim's place
The darlings at the top of the stairs
The porcupines in the artichokes
The spreading "you know"
Magical lady
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear muffs
The last clock
Such a phrase as drifts through dreams
A moment with Mandy
The tyranny of trivia
The wings of Henry James
Hark the Herald Tribune, Times and all the other angels sing
The new vocabularianism
The saving grace
Come across with the facts
The case for comedy
Here come the dolphins
Conversation piece: Connecticut
How the kooks crumble
The watchers of the night
My senegalese birds and siamese cats
The trouble with man is man
The duchess and the bugs.
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