Word: twain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time as S. L. Clemens. After the present exhibition, this bit of historic needlework will go back into the service of Mrs. Carnegie, who still uses...
...that he amazed experts before he was out of knickerbockers. He has held every title in billiards, although now he holds only the 18.1 balk line and the cushion carom. A quiet, smiling little man, he enjoys telling of the time at the turn of the century when Mark Twain watched him play a great billiardist named Sutton. Except for one inning in which he could not score, young Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton run out the block. As Sutton clicked off the final point, Mark Twain solemnly stepped over and shook young Hoppe by the hand...
...from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested him in Pan American Airways. In 1932 Jock supported Sonny in an unsuccessful campaign for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Last week at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, however, the Whitney twain split in a manner friendly but definite...
...stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning was not in the cards. Sure enough, the boilers burst and blew him back to the surface. In an episode which comes near to being pure Mark Twain he almost got tied down to a pretty French girl, but he left her because if he stayed "it meant that God would have to start all over with some baby and train him up to manhood and see if he would have enough guts to carry the job through...
Only on the field are the Trojan twain. Meadows works as a part-time janitor, plays excellent tennis for relaxation, is studying to be a physical education instructor. Inclined to be retiring, he is "unofficially" engaged to Marguerite Caswell, Western Women's sprint champion. More sociable, Sefton belongs to Phi Sigma Kappa, was cited this year as U.S.C.'s model all-round senior. At this week's intersectional meet between the Pacific Coast Conference and Big Ten track teams Earle Meadows and Bill Sefton will pole-vault as college teammates for the last time...