Love Conquers All: Robert Benchley

By Robert C. Benchley
Illustrated By Gluyas Williams
Printed October, 1922

They look him over as if he were a fresh air child being given a day’s outing.

Acknowledgment

The author thanks the editors of the following publications for their permission to print the articles in this book: Life, The New York World, The New York Tribune, The Detroit Athletic Club News, and The Consolidated Press Association.

Contents

• The Benchley-Whittier Correspondence
• Family Life in America
• This Child Knows the Answer – Do You?
• Rules and Suggestions for Watching Auction Bridge
• A Christmas Spectacle
• How to Watch a Chess-match
• Watching Baseball
• How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting
• The Manhattador
• What to do While the Family is Away
• “Roll Your Own”
• Do Insects Think?
• The Score in the Stands
• Mid-winter Sports
• Reading the Funnies Aloud
• Opera Synopses
• The Young Idea’s Shooting Gallery
• Polyp with a Past
• Holt! Who Goes There?
• The Committee on the Whole
• Noting an Increase in Bigamy
• The Real Wiglaf – Man and Monarch
• Facing the Boys’ Camp Problem
• All About the Silesian Problem
• “Happy the Home Where Books Are Found”
• When Not in Rome, Why Do as the Romans Did?
• The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth
• Malignant Mirrors
• The Power of the Press
• Home for the Holidays
• How to Understand International Finance
• Twas the Night Before Summer
• Welcome Home – and Shut Up!
• Animal Stories – I
• Animal Stories – II
• The Tariff Unmasked
• Literary Department
• “Take Along a Book”
• Confessions of a Chess Champion
• “Rip Van Winkle”
• Literary Lost and Found Department
• “Old Black Tillie”
• “Victor Hugo’s Death”
• “I’m Sorry That I Spelt the Word”
• “God’s in His Heaven”
• “She Dwelt Beside”
• “The Golden Wedding”
• Answers
• “Dark Water”
• The New Time-Table
• Mr. Bok’s Americanization
• Zane Grey’s Movie
• Suppressing “Jurgen”
• Anti-Ibáñez
• On Bricklaying
• “American Anniversaries”
• A Week-end with Wells
• About Portland Cement
• Open Bookcases
• Trout-fishing
• “Scouting for Girls”
• How to Sell Goods
• “You!”
• The Catalogue School
• Effective House Organs
• Advice to Writers
• “The Effective Speaking Voice”
• Those Dangerously Dynamic British Girls
• Books and Other Things
• “Measure Your Mind”
• The Brow-Elevation in Humor
• Business Letters
• Notes

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