Word: lincoln
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...Lincoln...
...separate incarnations, half a century apart, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., played rich roles in the nation's history. Before his first in auguration, Abraham Lincoln brought his family to stay at the original Willard, which opened in 1847 within two blocks of the White House. Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant had a special chair in the lobby, where he used to sit and smoke for hours while scandal crackled around his administration...
Lippmann left Cambridge a genteel Socialist, worked for a year on Lincoln Steffens' muckraking Everybody's Magazine. His first book, A Preface to Politics, was written after he served a brief stint as secretary to the Rev. George R. Lunn of Schenectady, N.Y., one of America's first Socialist mayors. But no dogma could contain Lippmann for long. He soon abandoned Socialism-but not all of its causes-and in 1914 became one of the founders of the liberal New Republic...
...They don't have our opportunities and facilities," Radcliffe coach Betty C. Lincoln said Saturday. "We've been very grateful for our set-up this year," she added...
...Lippmann began a journalistic career that spanned the succeeding six decades. Muckraker Lincoln Steffens came to Harvard to find an assistant, asking professors and members of the just-graduated class for "the ablest mind that could express itself in writing." Lippmann was his choice...