| Record ID: |
1170523 |
| Variant Title: |
Iron man and the tin woman, with other such futurities : a book of little sketches of to-day and to-morrow |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
vi, [2], 309 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
Not available |
| More creator details: |
by Stephen Leacock. |
| Contents note: |
Also: -- Forty years of billiards -- The hero of Home Week -- Conversations I can do without -- Mr. Chairman, I beg to move ... -- Fifty cents worth. |
| Contents note: |
College now and college then: -- All up! -- Willie Nut tries to enter college -- Graduation Day at the barbers college -- Correspondence Manual Number One. |
| Contents note: |
Futurity in fiction: -- Long after bedtime -- The newer truthfulness -- A midsummer detective mystery -- Little lessons in journalism -- More literary scandals -- Who reads what -- Overhauling the encyclopedia -- Jazzled journalism -- This heart-to-heart stuff. |
| Contents note: |
Great lives in our midst: -- Memoirs of an ice-man -- The memoirs of a night watchman -- Confessions of a super-extra-criminal -- The life of J. Correspondence Smith -- Eddie the bartender -- Janus and the janitor -- The intimate disclosures of a wronged woman. |
| Contents note: |
In the golf stream: -- The golfomaniac -- The golfer's pocket guide -- The golf season in retrospect. |
| Contents note: |
Pictures of the bright time to come: -- 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. |
| Contents note: |
To-day and To-morrow [as written]: -- Little conversations of the hour -- Travel is so broadening -- Tommy and Milly at the farm -- Life's little inconsistencies -- New words - new things -- More messages from Mars -- Portents of the future -- Rural urbanity. |
| Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN MERRIL COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLIBRARY LOAN |
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