Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally Mr. Baldwin rounded out an unusually philosophical week by addressing a banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spectator, famed British weekly review. Harking back to the U. S. Civil War, Orator Baldwin recalled that in 1863 the Spectator alluded to: "Mr. Lincoln's modest and somewhat vulgar but respectable statesmanship...
...those devoid of self-control from inflicting upon themselves and others the consequences of self indulgence and vice, your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning the destruction of the Maine...
...Olszewska will give concerts in Cincinnati, Kansas City, Lincoln, St. Paul, Chicago, Manhattan, Washington and Pittsburgh...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...
...Syracuse gladiators journeyed to Lincoln where they tossed and tussled against Nebraska; Nebraska's Witte passed to Sloan for a touchdown and kicked a goal; Syracuse's Baysinger tossed to Lewis for a touchdown but Louck's luck was against him; he missed his kick and Nebraska...