Word: twain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hannibal, Mo., Christopher Morley, author, and Carter Davidson, president of Knox College, visited Mark Twain's boyhood home, found some unpainted pickets on a fence between the house and the Mark Twain Museum, rolled up their sleeves, white-washed the fence...
...influence upon undergraduates in the field of English was once compared by his students to that of Barrett Wendell. Among his books have been "Mark Twain's America," "Forays and Rebuttals," a collection of essays, and a novel, "We Accept with Pleasure...
...unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant of infantry before he got back to Harvard to take his degree in 1920. He had taught for five years at Northwestern, married, published four novels that got high critical praise but few sales, a biographical study, Mark Twain's America...
With the citation, "Van Wyck Brooks: Vigorous author, evocative critic of the America of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; examiner of New England roots and exhibitor of her finest flowers," the second of these annual awards was made...
...MARK TWAIN-Edgar Lee Masters-Scribner ($2.75). Polemical biography that goes beyond Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain in picturing the humorist as a clown whose genius was warped by his refusal to challenge the ruling powers; written in an exasperated style that suggests Poet Masters would not have enjoyed Mark Twain even if he had written in another fashion...