... when the ditch in question has a flash flood roaring through it. The package also had some good weather quotations from Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Shelley Winters that I was invited to pretend that I had made up. But the last one of these, from a ...

... seek out only facts that fit what we already know to be true while downplaying or ignoring contradictory evidence. As Mark Twain is said to have quipped, "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." To a media covering a recession ...

... elevated boardwalk that leads to the river's edge. Mesmerize your mate with a passionate kiss while you watch, in Mark Twain's words, "the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along ...

When he said "God damn America," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright mostly performed an over-the-top Mark Twain. "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it," Twain is credited with saying. That is to ...

... cancer, he wrote his memoirs to help his family financially, and these were published with the help of his friend, Mark Twain." President Grover Cleveland was diagnosed with cancer of his upper jaw. He was a heavy smoker and drinker. President ...

... with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi It meanders through the heartland of America. It is deep and it is shallow - with levels ranging ...

... Advertisement - In 1886, President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration ...

... emergency management director John Hark said the Mississippi was cresting Sunday near the top of levees that protect Mark Twain's hometown. But he said the barriers were holding up well, and he was confident they would hold if the forecasts ...

... album and was nominated for five Emmys. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS. "Nobody was funnier ...

... Revolutionary freedom trails in each city, students probably will visit nearby Hartford to see the Connecticut Capitol or the Mark Twain house. Nearly half of the schools in the school administrators' survey said they are curtailing field trips. Montgomery ...