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...Hearst technique of developing or buying top-flight writing talent was clearly reflected in the Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
...political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive was Mark Twain who introduced far along and well along, meaning advanced. The phrase get along appeared in 1830, awful in the sense of "unpleasant...
Died, Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch, 58, famed Russian-born pianist, husband of Mark Twain's talented daughter Clara Clemens; since 1918 conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; after long illness; in Detroit...
...irrelevant questions asked by the visiting firemen. For a time consternation was thrown into the ranks by the frequent request to see "The Poet's House." It turned out that the inquirers were scarching for the Brattle Street home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, once familiarly addressed by Mark Twain as "Evangeline...