Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, Science spawned new wonders; Industry zoomed ahead. Along came Abraham Lincoln and an improved icebox. Then followed Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge (in 1924) with "bigger and better" refrigerators in the White House. But, it is Mr. Coolidge who brings the dawn of the great electrical era. The first event was the famed electric hobby horse ("camelephant"), upon which the President keeps fit. (TIME, Feb. 23, 1925.) Recently a new electric elevator was installed and also, mirabile dictu, an electric refrigerator system† with finny copper cooling coils and four one-half horsepower compressors. This equipment is equivalent...
...General Lincoln C. Andrews, returning from his "125% successful" conference with Britishers on smuggling prevention, sat in the dining salon of the liner La France, ate crêpes suzettes (French pancakes) with rum sauce. Novelist Edna Ferber (see p. 31) and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone spoofed him. He replied that "everything eaten with a fork or a spoon was quite all right...
With a flourish, the New York Herald-Tribune published last week more than a column of matter which purported to be an interview with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, reopening the squabble between him and General Nobile as to who did what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen...
...Lincoln Nev.-Carson City N.H.-Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne
...over the North Pole by the airship Norge was "an enterprise which could have been conceived and carried out only by superior beings," among whom, at that time, Mussolini deemed worthy of inclusion in his "fervent and heartfelt" congratulations Nobile's employers, Explorer Roald Amundsen, the brains; Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, the moneybags...