Word: huck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huck. It is this incarnation of the U.S. small-town mind at its best-a kind of adult blend of Tom Sawyer's intelligence and Huck Finn's human decency- that gave his life and gives his autobiography its special flavor. Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom...
...Sawyer!" Thousands of eager-eyed, freckle-faced American boys have marveled at the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as they captured enemy galleons, rescued beautiful princesses, and fought against Captain Kidd's pirates in the muddy waters of the Mississippi. From the life story of Mark Twain, author of these juvenile classics, Warner Brothers has made a faithful biographical movie...
MacCallister is pictured as a modern Huck Finn who doesn't take much to schoolin' but who likes horses. After being humiliated by his Shirley Temple counterpart, he proves his worth as a trotting jockey and wins cups, laurels, and a kiss...
...become a "riot" Every graduate came if he possibly could, and those who had no right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers and medicine men, sellers of gingerbread, purveyors of run, keepers of dancing bears, and ladies of easy virtue. The College Corporation was much worried by these raffish accompaniments to their solemn exercises. Unable to persuade the Cambridge authorities to keep the populace in order...
Twain was at the top of his popularity in 1883, when he and Charles Webster became partners. Twain had always had troubles with publishers-"pirates, scoundrels . . . humiliating swindles." Partner Webster at once began to have Twain trouble. First it was what Twain called "Huck Finn-that God-damned book!" He was certain it would not sell (it sold some 300,000 copies the first year...