Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead. The unfortunate part is that sorrow must remain. "We remember how we said good luck when we could not say goodbye". He then showed how there could be no help for sorrow in words but only in the thought expressed by words. At the news of Lincoln's death a wave of sorrow went over the country but those who felt it most said least...
...should put aside all differences of opinion. "All democracies", he said, "are easily panic stricken and our nineteenth century machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole. We may walk together today in patriotism but we may be centuries apart in our thoughts towards humanity...
...mummified body of John Wilkes Booth," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is advertised in a professional theatrical publication as being " for lease." The man who wants to let it is named Bates, and his address is No. 1234 Harbert Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. Startled by the threatened conflict between the Producing Managers' Association and Equity on the " closed shop" controversy, and fearing that should the clash come next fall, no matter what the result, the playwrights would be the grist between the theatrical millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother...
Henry Bacon was awarded the gold medal and highest honor of the American Institute of Architects?a tribute to his Lincoln Memorial in Washington...
Bacon was described as " an embodied conscience." A classicist, who has made the " the classic idiom " his own, he designs with scrupulous care. The Lincoln Memorial is the culmination...