Word: abraham
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Almost equally memorable was the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson in 1865. Johnson had just got through an attack of typhoid fever and, though a light drinker, he fortified himself with some brandy, chased by several slugs of whisky. When his turn came to take the oath, he stood up, weaving slightly, and made an unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged...
...party of Abraham Lincoln, as it often roguishly describes itself, has maintained its spotless record. The last thing it gave Negroes was liquor for their votes in the Reconstruction era. Two days ago the Republican Senators voted, 41 to 5, to table a motion to alter the filibuster rule...
...fairy tales, and watched such history-made-easy scripts as Maxwell Anderson's The Trial of Anne Boleyn. In general, the show's filmed offerings have been better than its live productions. Critics gave high marks to Novelist James Agee's five-part scenario dealing with Abraham Lincoln's early years, and to the program's unusual films such as the Danish Palle Alone, which told of a small boy who dreams he is the only person left on earth and ecstatically drives streetcars and fire engines through the empty streets of Copenhagen...
...colleges of the University of London sprawl across the face of London. Main highways and back alleys wind through its campus. Students of medicine and Marathi, English history and household work commute to classes. "Could anything be more absurd?" asked Educational Critic Abraham Flexner in his famed 1930 critique of American, English and German universities. "I confess myself unable to understand in what sense the University of London is a university...
...Abraham Lincoln later on became the Great Emancipator He could boast no Alma Mater...