Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music world - New York City Center's Lincoln Kirstein, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, Clarinetist Benny Goodman - also commission music for their own use. Among the increasing number of people who commission music for private purposes: a Philadelphia lady who commissioned a piece in memory of her dog. Standard fees: about $1,000 for a symphony, $2,500 for an opera...
...Chicago, big-volume Stallworth Motor Co. came right to the point with prospects, offered a $2,495 fully equipped Customline V-8 Ford for a flat $2,000. Another dealer offered the $4,937 Lincoln Capri at an $800 discount. In Dallas, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle, Plymouths were going at up to $200 off list, Pontiacs up to $500 off, DeSotos up to $700 off. Exceptions in the price war are Ford's Thunderbird. the big Chryslers, the new torsion-bar Packards (just going into production), and Cadillac...
UNTIL this century, nearly every American statesman desired to be thought a conservative: Calhoun did, and so did Lincoln. [In this century] the American, vaguely discontented with the shape of society, took for his model liberalism: he imagined that it was some sort of the-middle-way policy, happily splitting the difference between individualism and collectivism. Thus amorphous in its beginning, twentieth-century American liberalism has become almost impossible to describe, embracing a curiour congeries of people. The word "liberal," in such circumstances, has lost any real meaning. The liberal's distorted myth of private self-sufficiency...
Boss William Tweed (1860-71) and his henchmen had fleeced New Yorkers of some $200 million while he was Tammany's head. Boss Richard Croker (1886-1901) continued the Tammany rule that Lincoln Steffens described as "government of the people, by the rascals, for the rich." Boss Charles Murphy was the last successful leader of the old Tammany. When
...Force in Korea, was shot down over North Korea on Dec. 5, 1952, and taken to a jail in Mukden. There the Chinese held three U.S. fliers (none of them listed among the eleven convicted airmen): Captain Harold Fischer of Swea City, Iowa, Lieut. Lyle Cameron of Lincoln, Neb. and Lieut. Roland Parks of Omaha. MacKenzie said that he corresponded later with a fourth U.S. pilot, Colonel Edwin Heller of Philadelphia, who was in a Chinese hospital recovering from leg wounds...