Word: twain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elizabeth Jordan, 79, onetime editor (Harper's Bazaar), turn-of-the-century sobsister whose New York World stories on the Lizzie Borden hatchet-murder trial were the sensation of the day; in Manhattan. Close friend of Henry James, Mark Twain, she "discovered" Sinclair Lewis, bought his first novel (for Harper & Bros.), edited him with a heavy blue pencil...
Afternoons, Young tries to get in some golf, often breaks 80. At night, he likes to read. His favorite authors are Mark Twain and Dumas (Young sometimes refers to himself as "the D'Artagnan of the 20th Century...
...Fields had little to do with many things that have happened in the U.S. recently, but almost everything to do with the Duke and the Dauphin and others who peopled Mark Twain's piazza. Not for Fields was the jet-propelled gagging of the radio studios, as fast and inhuman and footless as a new transcontinental speed record. His tempo was adagio...
...Mark Twain was doing all right. A Tom Sawyer manuscript that had sold for $1,850 ten years ago was auctioned in Manhattan...
...proposal was made by E. Scully Bradley, chairman of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, who demanded more of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wait Whitman while asserting at the 36th annual meeting, held in Atlantic City, that three-quarters of the country's high school teachers of English were trained primarily in English literature...