Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better than quote those splendid words of Abraham Lincoln: "As the patriots of '76 rallied to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property and his honor-let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his childrens liberty. Let reverence for the laws become the political religion of the nations." JOHN P. HUBBARD...
...producers have done much better by Mrs. Glyn than she has deserved. They have not only featured the tiger skin on which the Queen (Aileen Pringle) does her notorious vamping of the innocent young man (Conrad Nagel), but, they have added a seductive bower of roses for good measure. Abraham Lincoln summed up this sort of product when he said of a book of poems: "For the kind of person who likes this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that he will like...
Last week came to the U. S. a funny-looking little man with a beard, named Abraham Isaac Kook. His visit may bring forth, for the benefit of the American Jew, as well as for the American Gentile, a more coherent account of this figure of speech, Zionism...
With all the confidence in the world Bart forces himself upon Mr. Abraham Nathan, president of the American Oceanic Company; and by a flowery speech about the value of publicity wins or himself an excellent position...
Progress Abroad. Mr. Abraham Flexner*; of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching contrasted conditions existing today with what they were 15 years ago when he made his first study of medical schools. During the past two years Mr. Flexner has been conducting a survey of medical education throughout the world. German and Austrian universities, he found "suffering economically." "France has been quite stationary," except insofar as the acquisition of the University of Strasbourg gives the country, for the first time, a modern medical school plant. In Great Britain appear signs of a new vitality in medical teaching; full...