Word: forswearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims at being "a very appealing piece of fiction," fabricates a Rose Franklin, Iphigeneia of the period, to collaborate with Lincoln on his very lofty plane of motives. Her part is to forswear, at Lincoln's behest, a well beloved fianceé, in the interest of political lubrication. At this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small...