Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only really nasty comments have come from the professionals--an occasional politician, evangelical clergyman and editorial writer--who, of course, have to say what their publics expect them to say, the old line about Lincoln, King George III' and the Declaration of Independence, which does not seem to me to be particularly applicable. I have been an editorial writer myself, and knew that nothing is easier and juicier than to be able to take a high-minded and critical 'one when somebody has told an unpopular truth. As for my younger brethren at Harvard, on the Crimson...
...reported on Louisville papers, joined the United Press in New York in 1919, been shifted to Washington in 1921. With the Senate now on his trail, he became a Public Character. He made a talkie for Pathé Newsreel, into which Pathé edited a shot of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator declaiming the Gettysburg finale...
Punch represents thousands of solid respectable British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
...heat--won by E. A. Payne (Southern California); second, Kieselhorst (Yale); third, Sykes (Haverford). Time--24 3-10 sec. Third heat--won by J. A. Payne (Southern California); second, Parrish (Swarthmore); third, Smith (Yale). Time--25 1-10 sec. Fourth heat--won by Cunningham (Yale); second, Stollwerek (Colgate); third, Lincoln (Princeton). Time--24 1-5 sec. Heat for third men (Two to qualify for semifinals). Won by Pogolotti (California); second, Sykes (Haverford). Time...
...Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...