Best of
Humor

1938

Archy's Life of Mehitabel


Don Marquis - 1938
    Don Marquis' creations have been constantly in print since 1934.

After 1903 - What?


Robert Benchley - 1938
    Includes the classic, "Ladies' Wild."

With Malice Toward Some


Margaret Halsey - 1938
    Excerpts from an acerbic diary kept by New Yorker columnist Margaret Halsey on her first trip to Europe just prior to the start of the Second World War.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day


Winifred Watson - 1938
    When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.