Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bennett is a sort of modern Dickens--a man of the romantic type. He makes a genuine effort to photograph English life--his efforts in this respect culminating perhaps in "These Twain...
...basso: "At a rehearsal in Chicago for Boris Godunov, opening opera of the season, I lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town Hall, Manhattan, I gave a recital. Said the critics: 'Sincere, eager, creator of a poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American...
...managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today Mr. Fillmore's article would certainly have been attributed to him: it is absolutely typical of America's best-loved humorist...
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET? Peter B. Kyne ? Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Dan Pritchard was a young California business man and two women were in love with him. One was Tamea, South Sea Island Princess; the other, Maisie Morrison, good and clean and well-bred. Poor Tamea! Even though she was Pritchard's ward, she could not quite click in society?and knew it. So, after bearing a child to Pritchard that he never knew about, she died gracefully of consumption, a la Camille?and left Pritchard to eat his cake and have it too by marrying Maisie, one surmises...
This duel reminds one of Mark Twain's experience. As a second to one of the somewhat corpulent participants, he was delegated to stand directly in his principal's rear. At the sight of his opponent's toy pistol, the duelist fainted into Mark Twain's arms, carrying away everything behind him. If one is to believe our humorist, he received thirteen wounds, only seven of them fatal, and enjoyed the distinction of being the first person injured in a French duel in twenty years...