Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are now 63 names honored in the Hall of Fame, including not only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but James Kent, Asa Gray, Mary Lyon, Maria Mitchell, James B. Bads, William T. G. Morton, Alice Freeman Palmer...
...which I said I had. Well, that gave us something to use for conversation for a while. But as I wasn't exactly garrulous, he suggested unkindly that we plan for the next time. We did or rather he did. And honestly I don't blame them for praising Lincoln if any man could go as far as he did on about three books how far can I go on three hundred? If all that he gave me to read was bound in one volume it would look like the register of the national order of the benevolent and protective...
...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
Cosmopolite, metropolite, he conceives the function of the company to be the giving of opera in the best possible manner. This is also the conception of Manager Gatti-Casazza; their consultations are cooperative, for where Mr. Kahn's Lincoln-waits?there waits harmony...
...first time in ten years a layman, Frank J. Harwood of Appleton, Wis., was chosen as Moderator. A Negro, the Rev. W. L. Ashe, of New Orleans, was elected Second Moderator, after one of his supporters had startled the assembly by an impassioned speech in which he cried: "Lincoln not only made my race, but my race made Lincoln...