Word: twain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mark Twain and Howells," Professor Maynadier, Sever...
...years ago a ruddy-cheeked Russian who wore startlingly high collars and frizzly hair standing on end arrived in the U. S. to give piano recitals. U. S. audiences took instantly to Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch. He became a fixture on the U. S. musical scene, married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, in 1918 became conductor of the Detroit Symphony. When Violinist Albert Spalding started to plow out his career, he reversed the route Gabrilowitsch had taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking son of a rich...
...Mark Twain," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...world or even of the Republic of Guatemala filtered in to us, save only the one appalling story of the Lindbergh tragedy. The life was a lonely and fatiguing one, and I felt as completely severed from the world I knew as though I had been translated like Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee completely out of my own century into some remote period of a forgotten past. For these six months I subscribed to TIME, which previously I had known only as a magazine on my friends' tables. Of course it came late, but that made no difference...
...nicely turned biography of Kari Marx, the well-known mystery man, by Max Nomad. It is of medium length and excellent outside reading for anything. In his column near the back cover will be found Billy Phelps on the subject of Mr. Devote and his biography of Mark Twain. This review, as an intercollegiate inter-office memorandum between English Departments, is highly appreciative, only criyucizing Mr. Devote for depressing the reputations of Mark Twain's contemporaries to elevate the public opinion of his hero...