Thurber, James        frey50        <br/><br/>
Lanterns & Lances 
 Lanterns and lances 
James Thurber 
 - New York  Harper & Brothers Publishers  1961 
 - 215 p. 
<br/><br/>Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- How to get through the day -- Midnight at Tim's place -- The darlings at the top of the stairs -- The porcupines in the artichokes -- The spreading "you know" -- Magical lady -- Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ear muffs -- The last clock -- Such a phrase as drifts through dreams -- A moment with Mandy -- The tyranny of trivia -- The wings of Henry James -- Hark the Herald Tribune, Times and all the other angels sing -- The new vocabularianism -- The saving grace -- Come across with the facts -- The case for comedy -- Here come the dolphins -- Conversation piece: Connecticut -- How the kooks crumble -- The watchers of the night -- My senegalese birds and siamese cats -- The trouble with man is man -- The duchess and the bugs. 
<br/><br/> Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wit and humor
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>817 Thu   14