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33.Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.

Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time.

34.I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.

35.They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.

They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked. 36.It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.

It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.

37.On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly…

People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.

38.They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.

These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.

39.Its habitat is the United States.

The place where this psychological attitude is found is the United States.

40.Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father……summer of freedom and adventure.

Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end.

41.The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-a cosmos.

His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It was a world of all types of characters.

42.All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that

seemed phonographic.

All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.

43.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe

region.

He went west to Nevada by a horse-pulled public vehicle, following the flow of people in the gold and silver rush.

44.…Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.

Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become well known locally.

45.“It was a splendid population-for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home…”

Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people.

46.“Well, that is California all over.”

That’s typical of California.

47.“What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf

occasionally and renew our edges.”

If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers.