Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among U. S. jazz band leaders, Conductor Abraham Lyman is esteemed as able, cunning, shrewd. Nonetheless "Conductor Abie" was chaffed at when he recently announced that he would "buck and bust" the absolute embargo which the British Ministry of Labor has maintained since 1925 against professional U. S. jazz-folk...
...Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln it was not possible to accord him the privilege of explaining his deed to the ladies and gentlemen of a radio audience...
That exception is the fact that Professor Albert Abraham Michelson of the University of Chicago has very accurately calculated the speed of light. It travels 186,000 miles a second. That figure, Professor Michelson said at Washington last week, was not more than one mile from exactness. And now scientists knowing that, he proudly repeated, can at any time they please remake the Paris standard metre...
...anti-Catholic. Caught eyes read on. The explanation: "Many sections of our country, particularly where there are few Catholics, are being flooded with millions and millions of pieces of literature of the type exhibited here. . . .' Then there were quotations from the U. S. Constitution, William Jennings Bryan, President Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt on the subject of religious liberty. The entire advertisement was the work of the Calvert Associates, publishers of The Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly...