Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address was broadcast by loudspeaker to overflow crowds that thronged the Yard, most standing in silent homage. Dean Sperry concluded with the quotation of Walt Whitman's elegy to President Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed...
President Roosevelt was the seventh president to die in office. Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley were assassinated, while William Harrison, Warren Harding and Zachary Taylor died of natural causes...
...around Jefferson, as around every other American hero, a native growth of affectionate legends about his early years. Men never told of him, as they did of Washington, historically doubtful but socially significant anecdotes about his truthfulness and strength. They never told the poignant stories that they told of Lincoln's hardships and humor, or even of Andrew Jackson's fiery temper and defiance...
...there McClure had gone to Europe, but the editors took him to lunch, talked about books and articles, and let him savor "the most stimulating, yes, intoxicating, editorial atmosphere then existent in America-or anywhere else." There, with such young associates as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, William Allen White, Lincoln Steffens, O. Henry, Jack London and Ida Tarbell, he became one of the "muckrakers" who made McClure's the most sensationally successful magazine of its time and a potent influence in U.S. history...
...Abraham Lincoln scored an almost 2-to-1 victory over George Washington (except in the solid South) in a nationwide Gallup poll to determine who is now considered the "greater...