Word: twains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire program has not been announced; however among Professor Copeland's readings will be "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...
Among Professor Copeland's readings will be: "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...
...rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering what I saw with my own eyes," boomed Chief Justice Kennedy, "I can only describe Robinson's play as a lampoon...
...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...
Like Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, even a sea-elephant might think it funny to see his own obituary notices. But great-tusked, bulging-eyed, three-and-a-half ton Goliath, "the only sea-elephant in captivity," employe of Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he looked no happier when the press carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking...