Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago somebody prepared a message for telegraphing to Washington-to which President Lowell's signature was obtained-beginning: "In eighteen sixty-one, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over the Trent affair." In the Herald, through a typographical error, the word "one" came out "our", so that it read: "In eighteen sixty our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln," etc. But how any person of ordinary intelligence could suppose that the writer of any such message would put the possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding...
...would respectfully commend to the enraptured orators, who are now appalled an American who can leave Abraham Lincoln unadorned, while claiming possession of the lady whom James Russell Lowell-according to the infamous and unauthorized interview of Julian Hawthorne-designated as "a snuffy old woman" the text of the old time headline writer, "What Next?" And for ourselves, a we read their feverish orations on this subject, destined to rend the air, we shall ask regarding their sources of dismay the same not impertinent question.-Boston Herald
...creditable to Harvard when its distinguished spokesmen are obliged to misquote history to justify their position when they say 'In 1860 our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war over the Trent affair." In these words E. F. McSweeney attacks the telegram sent by President Lowell and a thousand other members of the University asking Senator Lodge of defeat the Mason Bill...
...McSweeney makes much of the "our" which he finds before "Queen Victoria." He is either the victim of or guilty of gross misrepresentation. The telegram actually read "In eighteen-sixty-one Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln...
...eighteen-sixty, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over Trent affair. Two countries look to you to do the same today by preventing passage of Mason Resolution. Preservation of Anglo-American peace best security for liberties of Ireland and peace of world...