Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pratt Jr. of New Bedford; for Vice-President, H. W. Bragdon of Rochester, N. Y. J. P. Chase of Milton, and Moses Williams Jr. of Needham; for Secretary-Treasurer, W. C. Atwater of Wellesley Hills, W. C. Cox of Hyde Park, and D. P. Dondaldson of Lincoln...
...autumn of 1865, five months after General Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination, that a not-very-prosperous school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook...
...Lincoln Davis '94, M.D.'98, of Boston...
Next to the Glatt farm, the Lincoln Standard Aircraft Corp. opened a school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...
...Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak George" Law, and Abraham Lincoln who pop up at old moments to make the book plunging, rawboned historical fiction...