Word: twain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manasses, made newsworthy last fortnight by Father Coughlin, who declared that Bernard Baruch got his middle name (Mannes) from him. Most Biblical scholars dismiss as mythical Father Coughlin's story of Manasseh having Isaiah sawed in twain...
...Urbana, Ill., scheduled to lecture the Exchange Club on Mark Twain, University of Illinois English Professor H. G. Paul stood up, faced the Club, looked, then stared at his notes, collected himself, delivered a splendid lecture on Abraham Lincoln...
...Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions. Last week it began to look as if Thomas Wolfe might also be at work on this hypothetical volume. His first installment (Look Homeward, Angel) appeared five years ago, his second (Of Time and the River) last week. In the interval Author Wolfe had written some 2,000,000 words...
...citizen were asked to name the greatest U. S. writer of the 19th Century, he would be apt to choose, according to his literary politics, Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Walt Whitman. But a European would probably name Edgar Allan Poe. Like Melville and Whitman, Poe was not recognized by the U. S. as a great writer until Europe had guaranteed his genius. Says Biographer Pope-Hennessy: "He has been claimed as the founder of the 'Surrealiste' school, and in his unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model...
...Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert...