Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There have been three Presidents of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Pardon me, I am wrong; it has lately transpired there was another President called Something Wilson, who was devoted to his family, and liked to stand by the piano, listening to old songs. He was shockingly misunderstood...
...sunny, warm weather in the capital was a big help. Washingtonians, habitually cool toward visiting bigwigs, turned out half a million strong to greet El Presidente as he rode from the airport to the White House in Harry Truman's big Lincoln. The State Department had seen to it not only that Government workers were dismissed early for the occasion, but that Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues were well hung with Mexican flags and Bienvenido, Don Miguel signs. Bands were everywhere...
...visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal tale of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie's wife, whom Putnam found one day close to tears. "Line and I," she explained sadly, "are separating. . . . He's made transition [and he] says I'm not his intellectual equal any more...
...links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon, Larry Gray, and Ozzie Keiver make up a sizable squad of golfers, all of whom have played in at least one match, and all of whom create a headache for Coach Barclay...
Togliatti usually sleeps only five or six hours, appears at his desk at party head quarters by 7 a.m.† His recreations are bourgeois. He loves to read, frequently culling quotes for his speeches (favorite sources: Dante, Lincoln, the Bible). He loves soccer, and is rumored to write an occasional sports column under a pseudonym. Sometimes he strolls out to a simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game...