Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (Mark Twain), whose bust was unveiled by his daughter, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitch and who was praised in an address by Agnes Repplier...
...articles on his habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories of Mark Twain, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde. Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be. Somehow, and quite without seeming to patronize him, I want to take off my hat to Professor Brander Matthews...
...Never the Twain Shall Meet...
...people he knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom...
...recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second generation", to quote the cheerful Californian, "there would be a race of superman gods on earth...