Leacock
Americannoun
noun
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"He wrote for eight hours almost every day," his friend Victoria Leacock once recalled.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2021
My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021
For that, look to the films of Robert Drew, who, along with associates like Richard Leacock and D.A.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020
In the late 1950s, Pennebaker formed the production company Drew Associates with the director Richard Leacock and the former Life magazine editor Robert Drew.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2019
Country Life.—"Informed by a droll humour, quite unforced, Mr. Leacock reviews his little community for the sport of the thing, and the result is a natural and delightful piece of work."
From Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Leacock, Stephen
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