James Thurber
James Thurber , who died in 1961, was a cartoonist, a writer, a journalist, and a playwright.
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A female hare, who had been born with a foot in everybody's affairs, became known in her community, as "that big Belgian busybody". She reproached a …
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The writer reminisces about his grandfather, William M. Fisher. He was a man who had all his teeth capped in gold and clamped the stem of a red rose …
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James Thurber imagines the plight of the American writer.
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A guest at a cocktail party is introduced to the editor of a literary review, Mr. Peifer. They get into an involved conversation regarding middle-aged …
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Fiction, from 1939: “She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd.”
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Part 3 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star.”
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Part 2 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “There was once a lion who coveted an eagle’s wings.”
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Part 1 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “Once upon a time there were two turkeys, an old turkey and a young turkey.”
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REPORTER AT LARGE About Nice, tells about swindlers, usually dressed in the garb of priests. Excerpts from local newspaper L'Eclaireur de Nice it du …
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Dr. Louis E. Bisch, M. D., Ph.D., the "Be-Glad- You're-Neurotic" man, has a remarkable chapter which deals, in part, with man, sex, and the machine. …
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When the eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked the New York Sun whether St. Nick exists, the response became an immortal catchphrase, James Thurber writes. Who is she, all grown up?
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Author describes his first experience of making a radio broadcast. First of all he got off at the sixteenth floor instead of the seventeenth. Not wanting …
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The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry that I just didn't …
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Tells about the night that his father went to sleep in an old iron bed in the attic. He slept with his cousin who had a fear that he was going to be …
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Fanciful story about a man who was in love with his secretary and decided to get rid of his wife in order to marry the secretary. Comes home and tells his …
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Tells about the photograph collection of old theatrical pictures that Albert Davis has at 936 East 12th Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn. Thousands of other …
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Tells how two doting parents take their self-willed child up to shake hands with the engineer, and when he gets there, pulls his hands behind his back. …
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Visit to the Police College, eight-story building at the corner of Broome & Cleveland Streets where Grover Whalen is making college students out of cops. …
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Mrs. Monroe had had several cocktails before she arrived at Mrs. Armsby's tea, and she kept making odd statements that her husband had to try to cover …
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James Thurber’s humorous retelling of “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (also known as “The Night Before Christmas”) in the style of Ernest Hemingway.