Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development of Harvard University Robert Calhoun Creel Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci William Frederick Ebling Sheridan: The Critic Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale of a Tub Philander Silas Ratzkoff Scott: Redgauntlet Johnathan Barlow Richards...
...Springfield, Ill. A local plan that Democrat Roosevelt speak at Lincoln's tombset Republicans to screaming "Sacrilege!" Later it was explained that Governor Roosevelt simply wanted to visit this Republican shrine which he had never seen, had not the slightest idea of using it as a political stump. His second major address was scheduled for St. Louis that evening...
...year 1940. The U. S. is about to begin hostilities with a federation of South American States. Secretary of State Edwin Seward (claiming no relationship with Lincoln's Secretary of State) has signed the declaration. His wife and son are dead against Seward's folly. His son's chauvinistic sweetheart is all for it. Nevertheless, the younger Seward decides to use the family name and prestige to promote pacifism, declaring, amid a fluttering of applause from the audience, "If all the young men refuse to fight, there will be no more war." It is then that...
Servants in the small Hotel Lincoln, in Paris,* were mildly surprised one evening last week to see the short, white-mustached old Americain who had been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...
While Samuel Insull and his son were speeding toward Turin, newshawks in Paris flocked to the Hotel Lincoln. He had promised them an interview at 10:30 a. m., thus insuring himself a good chance for a clean getaway the night before. The reporters grew impatient. When Mrs. Insull, recently ill and still wan and weak, came out to go shopping they besieged her. "Please let me alone!" she cried hysterically. "I know nothing about my husband's affairs. Please, please let me alone!" Years ago Gladys Wallis was a pretty actress. The titles of some of her plays...