Word: twain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly in a protest against the prevailing badness", Sinclair Lewis...
...continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William James offered a "pragmatic aquiescence...
...Mark Twain. (Samuel Clemens...
Died. Frank M. Mulligan, 73, architect, whom a Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) audience once loudly cheered in the belief that he was bushy-haired Mark Twain; at Elizabeth, N. J., of an apoplectic stroke...
President, Mark Twain Society 37 Gray Avenue Webster Groves...