Lanterns & lances
Publisher: H. Hamilton
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: American fiction
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: How to get through the day; title: Midnight at Tim's place; title: The darlings at the top of the stairs; title: The porcupines in the artichokes; title: The spreading "you know"; title: Magical lady; title: Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear muffs; title: The last clock; title: Such a phrase as drifts through dreams; title: A moment with Mandy; title: The tyranny of trivia; title: The wings of Henry James; title: Hark the Herald Tribune, Times and all the other angels sing; title: The new vocabularianism; title: The saving grace; title: Come across with the facts; title: The case for comedy; title: Here come the dolphins; title: Conversation piece: Connecticut; title: How the kooks crumble; title: The watchers of the night; title: My senegalese birds and siamese cats; title: The trouble with man is man; title: The duchess and the bugs.