The chip on Grandma's shoulder
Robert Keith Leavitt
- Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company 1954
- 255 p.
Foreword : Why these memoirs are utterly untrustworthy - The chip on grandma's Shoulder - Back-yard town - Soft touch & sons - the House within a house - Levee of a gentleman - Double paly : Grandma to singer to satan - Old Colony twig-bending - fleshpots and pleasure-domes - Ways and means - Free Enterprise - the making of a tosspot - Suddenly sleuths - Doctrine and doctrinaires - Gambols of the flock - A handfull of handmaidens - Culture is a giddy trollop - There was a man - Grab-bag learning - Tribal rites - The world so new and all - Winter is icumen in - Idol worship - Tocsins, Tactics and Techniques - Versus the Kitchen stove - the night that Beals's block burned up - Bread and circuses - Day of days
Social life and customs. Massachusetts Manners and customs.