Word: belovedness
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Abraham Lincoln took the band with him to Gettysburg on a special train and at one point escaped to a seat up front with his beloved musicians. The band played a Lincoln favorite, the hymn Old Hundredth, right after the prayer that opened the cemetery dedication in which Lincoln gave...
DIED. KAY THOMPSON, in her 90s, entertainer and creator of the Plaza Hotel's most memorable guest, six-year-old Eloise; in New York City. Thompson was a successful nightclub performer who appeared as a Vreelandesque fashion editor in the movie Funny Face, but her most enduring character was Eloise...
Rumor: Giuliani strangled a homeless man to death after the hapless wretch begged for a handout without saying please. Fact: No such incident has occurred, at least not recently. The ugly rumor may have been sparked by the shooting by an off-duty police officer of an unarmed "squeegee man...
The World Cup, the quadrennial global soccer championship being fought out in nine cities across France this month and next, brings out all the best and worst of nationalist sentiments, not to mention the most incredible soccer talent on earth. It's a spectacle that dwarfs the Olympics in national...
Of all the surviving saints of the civil rights movement, John Lewis, now a Democratic Congressman from Atlanta, remains most committed to its original creed. Unlike black-power advocate Stokely Carmichael, who ousted him from the leadership of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966, Lewis never abandoned his belief...