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From my readings about her at the time I well remember what Mark Twain had said, namely, "Napoleon and Helen Keller were the most interesting personalities of the nineteenth century." At the end of the first third of our century I'll go even further than Mark Twain and say that no living personality is as interesting and unique as Helen Keller. I'm wondering whether in all history there has been any woman as unique and interesting an Helen Keller...
...oculist as she was losing her eyesight rapidly and Helen Keller went with her and her secretary. So while waiting I availed myself of the invitation to look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition to other books, I noticed the works of Mark Twain, Carlyle, Turgeney, and Hardy. The living room was decorated with unusual fine taste and among the pictures were her mother's portrait, the autographed picture of the Yugoslavian king--at whose palace Miss Helen Keller and her party were entertained--Alexander Graham Bell's effigy, Miss Sullivan's picture, and Tagore...
...positively jumpy about the problem: "The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe...
...disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands, The Great Fair is a charmingly apt epitaph for the Yiddish Mark Twain...
...very devout, but Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later, in 1914, she moved to the Remington Arms Co., Inc. as secretary to the chief of records. In a short time she was in charge of the company...