Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Lascelles, assistant private secretary to Lord Renfrew, said that his lordship had been reading The Life and Letters of Walter Hines Page, and that he was very fond of Mark Twain, had read some volumes twice. The secretary also said that numerous presents, ranging from chewing gum upwards, had been sent to him by firms and individuals. The rigid royal rule of not accepting gifts from strangers was adhered to and the gifts were all returned by registered mail, allegedly costing the Baron no trifling sum for postage. It was stated that from 10 to 40 letters 'daily...
...Negroes' accommodation train. They made out pretty well together, keeping away from Federal officers, until one day a Southern gentleman shot Durham in a card game. After that Hugh shipped on the Bald Eagle with Captain Hargusson and went up and down the Mississippi. That is about all. Mark Twain, conjurer, used to tell about the Mississippi; and every page or two, he would come out from behind his screen and have a cigar with the reader?or a drink, maybe. Mr. Boyd does not use tobacco, in a literary way. His style is as impersonal as the river...
Clarence W. Barren, purveyor of financial information, head of The Wall Street Journal and other financial papers, published an article in The Boston Herald predicting that Coolidge would sweep the country by ten million votes. His reasons were twain...
...Vendome (Holland-American) ?Ossip S. Gabrilówitch, famed pianist and Conductor of the Detroit Sym- phony, with his wife (Clara Clemens), daughter of the late Mark Twain...
...recent French Presidential election reminds one of Mark Twain's famous and often quoted French duel, in which the vanquished gentleman exclaimed with such exquisite pathos. "I die I die that France may live!" With a premonition of what was to befall. M. Painleve remarked on Thursday. "Personalities are nothing. It is the Republic alone that matters." One regrets that such beautiful unselfishness is not always displayed in domestic polities...