Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...
There exists a local phenomenon appearing annually at this season that is known to the natives as changeable weather. Properly it is one with the subject that has been ostrasized conversationally since Mark Twain pronounced that dictum that people have no right to complain when they never do anything about it. Still it insists on attracting attention because each year in the opinion of experienced observers it far exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with...
...fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even in the U. S. Observers last week pondered some of the things people would want to know about Mr. Baker apart from...
...wall of the club hang Booth's Hamlet and Shylock costumes, his pipes, the skull he used in Hamlet. It is a real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check for $200,000, which he, experimenting as a publisher, paid Mrs. Julia Grant for memoirs of her husband, Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain was a founder of The Players, as was Augustin Daly. Another treasure of The Players is one of the finest theatrical libraries in the world...
...quite as mad as Mark Twain over the "Punch, brothers! Punch with care!" jingle in your story about the Twentieth Century Limited, but I was sorry that you did not mention other famous American trains. Certainly the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania R. R. which runs between New York and Chicago in 20 hours, the magnificent trains of the Santa Fe which daily swoop across the deserts, and the many luxurious trains which speed from New York and Chicago to Florida and New Orleans deserved a mention in your story...