Word: sawyerism
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Tickets, which are priced at $2.00 a couple and $1.50 a stag, may be obtained in the Dinning Room, or at the door. Since this is the only Christmas dance in the Houses, Henry B. Sawyer '36 announced that all members of the University will be welcome...
...talking of Mark Twain, she said, "I met him at a party when I was a young girl--we just sat in a corner and talked. Have you read his "Mysterious Stranger?". Most people know the Mark Twain of "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Finn," but in this book is another Mark Twain, cruel, hard, and the greatest pessimist in the world...
Moving swiftly. Governor Johnston set up a new Commission, dispatched Guardsmen to seize $1,871,352 of highway funds in three Columbia banks, announced he would have his promised $3 tags on sale within a fortnight. Also wasting no time, ousted Commissioner Sawyer & friends sped to the Chief Justice of South Carolina's Supreme Court, got an injunction forbidding the Johnston Commission to disburse highway funds. Banks promptly refused to honor the new Commission's vouchers. In this stalemate bewildered motorists reached the deadline for buying 1936 licenses, got high-priced tags or went without.* Those who waited...
...Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
...greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side...