Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rating, being regarded less as a good and aggressively sensible writer than as a sort of public entertainer with a sleeve-full of uproarious phrases. His bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been accused of slandering Abraham Lincoln, ruining the English language, taking money from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below...
...spring U. S. college administrators traditionally pause to reappraise their faculties, promote promising men, reappoint others, bundle a few off to look for new jobs. In Lincoln, Neb. fortnight ago word reached John P. Weller, 39, an instructor in the University of Nebraska's French Department, that in June he would be eased out with a year's leave of absence at half...
...peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...
Isolated though he is 550 miles north of the railroad terminal at Fairbanks, Dr. Greist has nevertheless been host to several prominent U. S. citizens during the last decade. In 1926 Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, having sailed a dirigible across the North Pole, paused at Point Barrow, eleven miles north of Dr. Greist's settlement. More recently, the Lindberghs, flying to China, visited the Greists at Barrow. Last August when Flyers Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on a river bank 15 miles from Barrow, Dr. Greist embalmed their bodies...
...heroic and extraordinary achievements in Arctic and Antarctic exploration 1925-26," President Roosevelt presented Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with the National Geographic Society's 13th Hubbard Medal. Introduced at his lecture following the presentation as "a world discoverer who exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valor," Explorer Ellsworth trumpeted: "The most important incident of my trip across Antarctica [TIME, Jan. 27] was the raising of the Stars & Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast untamed land, the last unclaimed territory on earth...