Word: lincoln
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...first, in 1928, led the staid Atlantic Monthly to produce a series of articles on "Lincoln the Lover," based on a cache of newly found letters: three ostensibly from Abraham Lincoln to Ann Rutledge, two from her to him and four written by Lincoln about her. The correspondence all too neatly verified the unsubstantiated legend that in their early twenties Lincoln and Rutledge had been sweethearts. Looking back after Rutledge had died in 1835, Lincoln in an 1848 letter to John Calhoun, an Illinois acquaintance, allegedly wrote: "Like a ray of sunshine and as brief?she flooded my life...
...1940s, director Plaut and trustees such as Lincoln Kirstein were beginning to bristle at the limitations imposed by the rubric of "modern art." Modern art, by that time, no longer meant the art of the present, but rather served as a term to define a period, a term just like "Neo-Impressionism," or "The Pre-Raphaelites." Feeling that the Boston institution should serve as a place of experimentation in art. Plaut and some of his trustees broke off from MOMA and renamed the institution the Institute of Contemporary Art. "Contemporary Art" began to take on its current meaning, that...
...Detective Stephen Raabe: "The brothers would think nothing of paying $10,000 for a private Learjet to fly to the West Coast. They were living a jet-set life with lots of cars and women around." Things sometimes got rowdy. On one occasion, a girlfriend wrecked William's Lincoln Mark VI after an argument...
Lawrence R. Lincoln, another Beckwith resident, included his own message on the position: "I object to noise during exam periods. On a recent morning I was awakened at 7:54 a.m. I hope that you live in a quiet neighborhood. Ms Wadr...
Freud implied that a man putting on a hat was performing a phallic gesture. One historian of costume, James Laver, remarked that "epochs of extreme male domination have coincided with high hats for men." What does that tell us about Abraham Lincoln? Well, Freud is also said to have conceded that a cigar is sometimes merely a cigar...