Word: twain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante...
...Comic and Humorous Reciter is catholic in its tastes ? specimens of both English and American humor are admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...
MISSOURI: A movement is on foot to buy the Mark Twain homestead, near Florida, Mo., where Mark Twain was born. The owner of the homestead is willing to give the house to the state and sell the land at a fair valuation...
...Mark Twain's ludicrous account of the "great French duel," in which he--the second--was the only man injured in thirty years, gives one impression of the French character. A report from Paris that French rugby rules must be revised on account of excessive roughness gives quite another. In the Toulouse-Biarritz match--the semi-finals in the championships--Toulouse lost twelve of its fifteen players, and the Biarritz casualties were eleven...
Admiral Robert E. Coontz comes into the command of the combined United States Fleet. In this post he succeeds Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who was in command during the recent maneuvers. The new commander-in-chief is 58 years old. He was born in Mark Twain's home town of Hannibal, Mo. After his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1885 he rose successively through the various ranks, and he was made Admiral...