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Chimney Sleep? (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain's cigar smoking was a constant source of irritation to his wife, Oliv... Marked Man? (Twain anecdote) Like Hemingway, Mark Twain loved to boast of his hunting and fishing exploits. R... Basket Case (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain once attended a meeting at which one of the speakers was raising mone... Smart Move (Twain anecdote) While working as an impecunious young reporter in Virginia City, Mark Twain was ... Standing on Principle (Twain anecdote) One day during a lecture tour, Mark Twain entered a local barber shop for a shav... Cub Reporter (Twain anecdote) An editor once admonished his cub reporter, Mark Twain, never to state as fact a... Kid Gloves (Twain anecdote) At his historic first meeting with James Whistler (a fellow American living in L... God Knows Where (Twain anecdote) One night a group of Mark Twain's friends in New York, having recognized the dat... Fitting Response (Twain anecdote) "Mrs. Stowe was leaving for Florida one morning, and Clemens [the young Mark Twa... Pinhead (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was once impressed by the tale of an industrious young man who had be... Mark Twain: Bathing Beauties (Twain anecdote) In 1866, Mark Twain spent four months in the Hawaiian Islands (then known as the... Heaven Song? (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain's wife was not enamored of her husband's cruder domestic compositions... Smoky Irony (long) (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was thought by many knowledgeable observers to smoke the worst cigars... Twain's Word (Twain anecdote) Having attended a service one day delivered by the future bishop of Albany, Mark... Close Shave? (Twain anecdote) Among his volumes of fan mail, Twain often found photographs of men claiming to ... Twain Meeting (Twain anecdote) One day Henry Irving, in the midst of telling Mark Twain a humorous story, abrup... Rainy Day? (Twain anecdote) Shortly after leaving church one Sunday Mark Twain and his friend and fellow wri... Perfect Remedy (Twain anecdote) In later life Mark Twain suffered from various ailments, among them arthritis an... Twain's Tie (Twain anecdote) Returning from a visit with Harriet Beecher Stowe one day, Mark Twain was reprim... Roses (long) (Twain anecdote) While working on the steamboat Pennsylvania in 1858, Mark Twain got into a fight... Chuckleberry Finn? (Twain anecdote) After thousands of copies of Twain's Huckleberry Finn had been printed an... 11th Commandment? (Twain anecdote) A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Tw... We, We, We... (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was peeved by Walt Whitman's habitual use of 'we' when he spoke about... Twain Beds? (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain did much of his writing in bed, irrespective of the time. One day, hi... Twain Dead? (Twain anecdote) When Mark Twain was in London, a rumor concerning his death reached the editor o... Halley's Comet (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain's birth in November 1835 was heralded by the return of Halley's comet... Ancient Wisdom? (Twain anecdote) In a speech at his 70th birthday celebration, Mark Twain outlined his own surviv... Fateful Contrivance? (long) (Twain anecdote) On an expedition to Jerusalem, Mark Twain made the acquaintance of Charles J. La... Fishy Advice (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain once fielded a question concerning a recommendation from the Swiss-Am... Mark Twain: Deadly Cigars (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain, an avid smoker, had a peculiar taste in cigars. (One reporter was so... Smoker's Paradise (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain, an avid smoker, had a peculiar set of priorities. "If I cannot smoke... Cold Turkey (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain, an avid cigar smoker, tried to quit or cut back on several occasions... Old Masters? (Twain anecdote) Though best known for such works as "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," Mark Tw... Right Word (Twain anecdote) Like many writers (Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, for example), Twain often... English Spelling (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain once proposed a "Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling": ... Mark Twain: Pirate Justice (Twain anecdote) In 1876, a Canadian publisher (the Estes and Lauriat Publishing Company) pirated... Twain Makes a Mark (Twain anecdote) In order to apply for the post of reporter-at-large with the Territorial Enterpr... Young Shania (Twain anecdote) Shania Twain, who began singing in dive bars when she was barely old enough to g... Simple Solution? (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was no great fan of Jane Austen's work. "The omission of Jane Austen'... Twain Riddle (Twain anecdote) Among Mark Twain's lesser-known creations was a certain bestselling book contain... Summer Rental (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain had an uncommon fondness for cats. Summering in New Hampshire one yea... Nine Lives (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain once observed that it was possible to learn too much from one's exper... Flattering Fans (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was frequently approached by flattering fans. "There is nothing you c... Newspaper Spider (Twain anecdote) One day during his tenure as the editor of a small Missouri newspaper, Mark Twai... Twain & Twitchell (Twain anecdote) Mark Twain was visited one day by Reverend Joseph Twitchell, who invited him to ... Doubly Embarrassed? (Twain anecdote) After several failed attempts, Mark Twain at last obtained an invitation to meet... 'Twixt and Twain (Twain anecdote) "In a world without women," Mark Twain was once asked, "what would men become?" ... Roughing It (Twain anecdote) When Mark Twain married Olivia in 1870, he made a determined effort to quit smok... [Back To Browsing/Searching page]

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