Word: twain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons...
Died. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 91, famed Californian; in Los Gatos, Calif. The eccentric corporation lawyer was a fighting liberal, poet, satirist (Heavenly Discourse), had been a West Pointer ('74), Indian fighter, longtime friend of Jack London and Mark Twain...
...Russian listeners like a whole evening's reading from Mark Twain, O. Henry, De Maupassant, Chekhov, etc. They also like poetry readings by stage and radio stars...
...Mark Twain was so casual a writer that 33 years after his death chunks of his enormous output are still being discovered. Latest Twain student to strike pay dirt is Lowry Charles Wimberley, English professor at the University of Nebraska. In an article in the November Atlantic Monthly he unveils a rare, neglected sample of Twain's rollicking burlesque, which he found in Nebraska's State Historical Society files...
From his home in Hartford, Conn., Mark Twain promptly wrote the Post a letter...