Word: lode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...
...historymaker, the Argonaut was also a moneymaker. Deep in the heart of the incredibly rich Mother Lode vein, its 6,000-ft. shafts have carried up over $19,000,000 in gold since 1850. Much of this went to Jackson barkeepers, storekeepers and bawdy-house keepers, helped keep the town going when the expected factories and payrolls never appeared. Now the show is almost over...
Shadow of the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is more aptly titled than was meant. This fourth working of a once-rich lode comes up with very little pay dirt. Its great-grandparent, The Thin Man, made as a quickie seven years ago, grossed a million or so dollars and incidentally delighted U.S. cinemillions with the brand-new Hollywood discovery that a man and his wife could be in love with each other...
Last week Tessie Oelrichs, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made millions in the Comstock Lode, turned in her grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more...
There was loud-mouthed Henry Comstock, called "Old Pancake" because he practically lived on flapjacks. There were Eilley and Lemuel Sanford ("Sandy") Bowers, she a boardinghouse keeper, he an illiterate mule skinner. They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...