Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson entered upon his political career just ten years ago. A practicing attorney in San Francisco and regarded as one of the leading men of his profession in his native state, he had attracted wide attention by his masterly handling of the prosecution of Abraham Ruef, the boodling boss of the city by the Golden Gate, after Francis J. Heney, assistant district attorney, had been shot down in court. Johnson stepped into Heney's place and, without compensation, fought the case through bitter weeks to a verdict for conviction...
Ganneit House: 1a, F. C. MacLaughlin, Jr., 2, Abraham Green; 3, C. M. Bates: 5, Edward Buckner; 5a, A. H. Schottland; 6, E. B. Stevens...
...poster portrait of Lincoln, which Mr. Charles Falls designed to Advertise Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln," now playing to tense audiences at the Cort Theatre, New York City, has come to an extraordinary end for a poster; it has been secured by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The drawing is singularly well adapted in style, we are told, not merely to Lincoln's rugged personality, but to Drinkwater's spare, and yet significant, outline of Lincoln, in his strangely effective drama. The picture is flatly done in black and white against a dull orange background...
...Abraham Lincoln declared in his First Inaugural that...
...different. There were new lines in his face. It was sorrowful. His steps were slow. He had passed out of his young manhood. When I spoke to him he answered with that gentle dignity now so familiar to all who know him. From that hour he was Abraham Lincoln...