Word: twain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacinto Benavente, author of The Passion Flower: " On arriving in New York, I told reporters that American literature is almost unknown in Spain-except for Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, and Longfellow...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...East is West and West is West and never the twain shall meet," declared Mr. Kipling and promptly made an exception. He should at the same time have made another exception for the benefit of American novelists. For if the poet were right what would become of the Western novel? Hamlet with Hamlet left out would be complete compared to the Western novel if East and West could not meet. The play thus robbed would still have a plot but the novel would have neither plot nor character...
...Renewal of University swimming team planned". And judging from the numbers that have signed the blue books, there is a decided interest in the idea. But a swimming team under present conditions would stand as much chance in a contest as "Dan'I Webster"--Mark Twain's prize frog.--after being forced to swallow lead. With no adequate pool in the University the candidates will have to go to the Y. M. C. A. tank in Boston and even there, unless present arrangements are changed, the only available time for practice will be during the supper hour. That a representative...
...attractive features of the summer work was a series of lectures by Professor C. T. Copeland '82 on "Charles Lamb", "Sir James Barrie", "Mark Twain", "Stephen Leacock", and "Edward Fitzgerald...