Turns about Town

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holliday, Robert Cortes, 1880-1947

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Turns About Town" by Robert Cortes Holliday is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. The essays explore various aspects of urban life, often with a humorous or reflective tone, capturing the quirks and peculiarities of city living. Among the themes, the author seems to delve into the experience of hotel life and social engagements, discussing the nuances of New York and other cities with a light, observational humor. The opening of "Turns About Town" introduces readers to the author's appreciation for hotels, particularly the rituals and nuances associated with hotel stays. Holliday describes the different characters encountered in hotels, including guests and service staff, painting a vivid picture of life within those walls. He shares anecdotes that highlight the often absurd situations that arise, whether it's navigating the complex etiquette of hotel services or the amusing personalities of hotel regulars. This sets the tone for the rest of the collection, where the author promises more likeness of the modern world through a comedic lens, exploring other facets of urban living in subsequent essays. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

The hotel guest

A humorist misfits at a murder trial

Queer thing, 'bout undertakers' shops

The haircut that went to my head

Seeing Mr. Chesterton

When is a great city a small village?

The unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia

Our last social engagement as a fine art

Writing in rooms

Taking the air in San Francisco

Bidding Mr. Chesterton good-bye

No system at all to the human system

Seeing the "Situations Wanted" scene

Literary lives

So very theatrical

Our steeplejack of the seven arts

Former tenant of his room

Only she was there

A humorist's note-book

Including studies of traffic "cops"

Three words about literature

Recollections of landladies

An idiosyncrasy

The sexless camera

I know an editor

A dip into the underworld

Nosing 'round Washington

Fame: a story of American literature.

Credits:

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 71.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2011-05-11