Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobiles in a general northerly direction. A few of the more intelligent paid ten cents and studied on the benches in the subway. Some looked longingly at the Charles, but realized that they had no place in which to take the necessary cleansing shower afterward. Everyone agreed, in Mark Twain's phrase, that something ought to be done about the weather, but no two opinions coincided...
...spite of what Mark Twain said about statistics as a superlative form of lying, there are times when figures are very impressive--especially if one is left to draw his own conclusions. The Boston Transcript has given such figures of college attendance in this country. "Since the establishment of colleges in the United States," says the Transcript, "there have been graduated, in round numbers, 900,000 men--and at the present moment there are actually in the colleges of the country about 700,000. In other words, there are almost as many students now in the colleges of the land...
...many poor children are criminal delinquents; yet how can good people prevent these raggedy jackanapes from practicing their malicious mischiefs, committing their public nuisances? Mark Twain was kindly disposed toward bad little boys; he made good reading of them. Nevertheless, many urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were...
...decision not to publish the work until ten years after his death must not be taken too seriously. Mark Twain inserted that there were things in his autobiography which would cause a revolution if printed earlier than the year 2000, yet his work has been found more tame than epochal. Mr. Clemenceau may merely to perpetrating a Gallie hoax...
...genealogy, William Hoppe, billiard "champion of champions," opens his autobiography,* proceeds to tell how he learned to play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title, but was defeated in turn after...