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Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. [1] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. [2]
My Financial Career is a 1962 Oscar-nominated animated short directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Colin Low and Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada. The cartoon is based on a story of the same name from one of Stephen Leacock 's collections of short stories, Literary Lapses (1910). [1]
Publication date. 1912. ISBN. 9781414244785. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti.
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The medal, cast in silver and designed by Canadian sculptor Emanuel Hahn, is two inches (5.08 cm) in diameter and approximately 0.125 inches (.32 cm) thick. It weighs 3.125 ounces (88.59 g). On the obverse is a profile of Stephen Leacock’s head and the dates of his lifespan (1869–1944). The words "Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal Founded 1946 ...
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The Garden of Folly. The Garden of Folly is a work of satire, published by Stephen Leacock in 1924. The prosperity of the 1920s and Prohibition serve as targets. [1] Quotations from the book are still cited as of 2017, used to illustrate the deceptive nature of advertising [2] and the fake news cycle. [3]