| Description |
vii, 756 pages ; 17 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking portable library |
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Viking portable library.
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| Contents |
Novels. You know me Al (A busher's letters home ; The busher comes back ; The busher's honeymoon ; A new busher breaks in ; The busher's kid ; The busher beats it hence) -- The Big town (Quick returns ; Ritchey ; Lady Perkins ; Only one ; Katie wins a home). |
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The short stories. Alibi Ike -- Rhythm -- Haircut -- Champion -- A day with Conrad Green -- The love nest -- The golden honeymoon -- Some like them cold -- A caddy's diary -- Gullible's travels -- Carmen. |
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Miscellaneous. Symptoms of being 35 -- General commentary. On newspapers ; On chain letters ; On conversation -- Men and women. Say it with oil ; Marriage made easy ; Love letters made easy ; Large coffee -- A world's serious. Advance notice ; The first day ; The second day ; The third day ; The end -- On politics. Disarmament in 1921 ; The Democrats in 1924 ; On Prohibition -- Children, society, and dogs. Visiting royalty ; Table manners ; Opening remarks ; Dogs -- An infant industry. Off color ; A crooner ; Running comment ; Night and day ; Fun on the air ; A perfect program. |
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Parodies and "plays". The young immigrunts -- A few parodies. A literary diary ; Your Broadway, beau, and you can have it ; Odd's bodkins ; Dante and ----- -- Short plays. Thompson's vacation ; The bull pen ; Quadroon ; Dinner bridge ; Cora, or, Fun at a spa ; Abend di Anni Nouveau ; Clemo uti, The water lilies ; I gaspiri ; Taxidea Americana. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor.
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American wit and humor. (OCoLC)fst00807457
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| Genre/Form |
American wit and humor.
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| Added Author |
Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970, editor.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1946
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Portable Ring Lardner. New York, Viking Press, 1946 (OCoLC)609477927 |
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