Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Lincoln documents from the collection of Wilma Frances Minor, published in facsimile in the recent issues of the Atlantic Monthly, purporting to be the hand of Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, Sarah Colhoun, and Matilda Cameron, were all penned by the same author, is the hypothesis suggested by Maurice H. Hilton 1G, as the result of a searching graphological investigation. That this hand is revealed in a letter signed "W. F. Minor" is further suggested by the comparison and analysis of the hand writing exhibited in all the letters...
...Sedgwick, if he has not yet discovered the individual author of the documents, must be convinced that their authorship rests between the mother and the daughter, and must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest
...word, there is no real reason why anyone should buy "Leffing Ges" unless he particularly wants to do so. Perhaps, told over the radio by their author these things affect the risibilities: in cold print they affect the stomach...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, made known that he and his wife would soon sail forth on a fishing cruise. The Pinchot ambition: to catch a mammoth manta ("sea devil") such as Explorer-Author William Beebe captured in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands...
...dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public to buy its wares would be to sin against the Holy Ghost. ... By all means let our commercial houses engage skilled but nameless scribes to write their advertisements as such. But a writer...