Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Clayton Meler of Council Bluffs, Iowa, from Abraham Lincoln High, lives in Matthews...
...startle all comers. For the first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille in a pronounced "widow's peak." The new standard is more like the 1937 type, but has greater flow in lines. Both cars have the same chassis. The de luxe comes in eight body types, the standard...
...greatest of all American actors, Edwin Booth. Booth played the part of Richard II very few times and in this connection there is an interesting story. It was claimed that the reason he seldom portrayed Ricahrd was that his brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln the night he was playing that particular part. This fact gave him an aversion to the role. This has since been disproved and it is not now thought to be true...
...division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with an indiscretion no less dramatic. Climaxing a rhetorical eulogy of famed Rebel Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Lamar said: "Let the world know the wisdom, the kindness, the justice of the great and only President of the Confederate States of America-Abraham Lincoln...
Enrolled as a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., was Ann Rutledge, 18, daughter of Donald Rutledge of Ottumwa, Iowa, a nephew of the Ann Rutledge who was Abraham Lincoln's tragic, youthful love. She was working in a WPA theatre project in Chicago when she was introduced to the president of Lincoln Memorial, was persuaded to enter...