Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be on the inside receiving brickbats, instead of outside throwing them. We must be alert and liberal in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's concept that the individual is the complex heart of society. We must not be a stuffy and pompous party...
...when Abraham Lincoln had spoken the last words of his first inaugural address, he leaned over and handed his copy down to a young newsman named Crosby Noyes, told him to get it set in type. Washingtonians have been depending on the Noyes-edited Washington Evening Star ever since. Rich, reserved and respectable, the newspaper has become as solid a Washington institution...
Federal Reserve. In East Weymouth, Mass., Samuel Schofield bought 64 bars of Army surplus soap, found each stamped: 'Save Soap to Win the War. (Signed) Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln...
...also carries an extensive stock of originals and prints and does considerable framing work. Their exhibition this month is the series of paintings of the "Temptation of Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...
Down Furs. Luxury goods were hardest hit. Sales of fur coats were down; so were fur prices. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus announced a one-third reduction in the price of $113,170 worth of "truly magnificent fur coats...