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East Potomac is a neighborhood golf course that Washington Post Cartoonist Herblock, 54, likes to waffle around on. Westerner Stewart Udall, 44, thinks of conservation in terms of wide open spaces, not a metropolitan nine holes. The twain finally met, however, after the Interior Secretary okayed plans to build a parking lot and aquarium on the course, bringing an anguished letter from his friend Herb challenging Stew to a friendly round, "because I want him to see the course from a player's viewpoint." Udall shot a 46 to Herblock's 51, but the loser scored a tactical...
...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...
...Wapshot Chronicle. Maybe St. Botolphs is not Quincy, Mass., where Cheever was born 51 years ago, but it is St. Somebody's; its topography is drawn in Cheever's mind. As such, it has become one of the great home towns of American fiction, like Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo., or Thomas Wolfe's Altamont, in the state of Catawba. Like Altamont, St. Botolphs, Mass., may be found not in a state of the Union but in a state of mind. In its New England fashion, St. Botolphs is as much an in carnation...
...point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent. When asked why, he replied, "Because yeast is yeast and waste is waste and never the twain shall meet." Like so many master plumbers at Harvard he was teaching a great deal more than the immediate matter at hand...
...poor, mildewed old fossil," Mark Twain called the Smithsonian Institution. He was wrong: in 1869, when the great author let fly at it, the Smithsonian, founded 23 years before, only seemed old. But the museum doggedly proceeded to fossilize itself with quaint, dutiful and embarrassing exhibits. Into its red brick neo-Romanesque castle on the edge of the Mall in Washington, D.C., went the Lord's Prayer, engraved in the space of a needle's eye, a necklace made of human fingers, and a pair of Thomas Jefferson's leather britches. Civil War General Phil Sheridan...