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Stephen Leacock   /stˈivən lˈikˌɑk/   Listen
Stephen Leacock

noun
1.
Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944).  Synonyms: Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock.





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"Stephen Leacock" Quotes from Famous Books



... new nation and its situation which follows is reproduced by permission from the American Political Science Review, and is from the pen of Professor Stephen Leacock, head of the department of Political Economy of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A distinguished citizen of one great British federation may well be accepted as the ablest commentator on ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor
... there was a lively Ruth who invited him up to the library, read extracts from Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels; turned companionably serious, and told him how divided were her sympathies between her father—the conscientiously worried employer—and a group of strikers in his factory. She ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis


Words linked to "Stephen Leacock" :   humorist, Stephen Butler Leacock, humourist, Leacock, economic expert, economist


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