Word: abed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many memorabilia of "Honest Abe", as well as the axe, and of the Civil War period in general, are included in the historical exhibit. The objects range in size from the formidable ten pound woodchopper to an early photograph showing him in his young and beardless days. In the writings they vary from a terse notice announcing his return to private life to the twelve hundred pages of "Gone With the Wind," which was included for reasons which the reporter was unable to discover...
...guests are both funny and pathetic. Exhausted from a 50-week grind in city offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas...
Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor, sees Lincoln as one of the people elevated to power who never forgot his origins. He repeats with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked...
...Columbus, Ohio, last month Mrs. Leonard Loomis, 21, was about to have a baby. Her obstetrician, Dr. Abe Herbert Kanter, took Mrs. Loomis' left hand, held it palm down over her head while he softly intoned: "You are going to sleep now. You are so tired, so very, very tired. Just relax. Your arms and legs are relaxing. They are so heavy. Just relax, relax. You are so sleepy, so sleepy, so very, very sleepy. . . . When I count three you will be asleep. . . . One, two, three...
...League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey. Mr. Pirow called on the Secretary for Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Pirow made the official rounds of London and to intimates he confided that he thought his welcome, if anything, too hospitable. The British Islanders, he was resolved, should not take in the Union...