Research Catalog

Title

The iron man and the tin woman : and other futurities / by Stephen Leacock.

Author

Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Publication

London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1929.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bodley Head (Firm) publisher.

Description

ix, 307 p.; 20 cm.

Genre/Form

• Humorous fiction
• Short stories

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The iron man and the tin woman -- Further progress in specialization -- When social regulation is complete -- Isn't it just wonderful? -- The last of the rubber necks -- Athletics for 1950 -- The criminal face -- Astronomical alarms -- Memoirs of an iceman -- The memoirs of a night-watchman -- Confessions of a super-extra criminal -- The life of J. Correspondence Smith -- Eddie the bartender : a ghost of the bygone past -- Janus and the janitor -- The intimate disclosures of a wronged woman -- Little conversations of the hour -- Travel is so broadening -- Tommy and Milly at the farm -- Uninvented inventions -- Life's little insconsistencies -- New words, new things -- More messages from Mars -- Portents of the future -- Rural urbanity -- Potter's corners -- All up! -- Willie Nut tries to enter college -- Graduation day at the barbers' college -- Correspondence manual number one -- The golfomaniac -- The golfer's pocket guide -- The golf season in retrospect -- Long after bedtime -- The newer truthfulness -- Little lessons in journalism -- More literary scandals -- Who reads what -- Overhauling the encyclopedia -- Jazzled journalism -- This heart-to-heart stuff -- Forty years of billiards -- The hero of Home Week -- Conversations I can do without -- Speculative credit -- "Mr. Chairman, I beg to move--" -- The early rising of Primus Jones -- Fifty cents' worth.

OCLC

• 5581829
• SCSB-11958745

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library