Word: lincoln
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Edward Everett Hale, 1839, the famous orator who spoke before Lincoln at Gettysburg, had "The Supposed Degeneracy of Our Age" for his graduation topic. Francis Parkman. 1842, who later wrote "The Oregon Trail" and other well known works, spoke at Commencement on "Romance in America...
...Hoan's hero is Abraham Lincoln. There is a bust of him in the living room, as well as a photograph, a statuette and pair of bookends of him in Mr. Hoan's study. Mr. Hoan is built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses...
Died. Hannah Armstrong Munsch, 71, daughter of William B. Duff Armstrong whom circuit-riding Lawyer Abraham Lincoln helped absolve of murder in 1857 by the celebrated means of using an almanac to prove that witnesses who saw the defendant in "bright moonlight" were lying; in Easton...
John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at the instigation of Pope Pius...
Within a few days much the same thing had happened at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan and at R. H. White Co. in Boston, which is owned by Filene's. All three stores are members of Associated Merchandising Corp., which was founded by Lincoln Filene in 1916 to. give leading department stores throughout the country a Manhattan centre for style and market information, later engaged in co-operative buying. By the middle of last month all but four of the 20 members of Associated Merchandising Corp. had been "red-carded" by the Guild...