Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Door. His death, which came on the last day for filing in the primary elections, caused an unseemly scramble in Nebraska. Less than 90 minutes after Butler died, a Lincoln attorney representing fiery-eyed ex-Congressman Howard Buffett of Omaha knocked on the door of Secretary of State Frank Marsh's home in Lincoln, and asked Marsh to accept Buffett's filing for Butler's unexpired term. Secretary Marsh, holding that the deadline had passed when he locked his statehouse office at 5 p.m.. refused. Later that night, in the quiet darkness...
PACKARD will be out first with tubeless tires at no extra cost. Other automakers will follow. Lincoln will use tubeless tires next year, and Cadillac is testing three makes (Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), hopes to pick...
...wind; the eyes, dark, full and deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness . . . One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr. Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln in 1861. It was this extraordinary gift for writing closeups (in an age when the camera was in its infancy) that made Russell one of the most famous newspapermen...
...Washington, the President invited Russell to the White House for dinner, and Mrs. Lincoln sent bouquets. Secretary of State Seward had him round for whist, showed him the day's confidential dispatch to the U.S. Minister in London, and painstakingly explained...
...wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell maintained strict impartially. On Morris Island, S.C., he was urged to drink to "something awful" for Lincoln and the North, but he sharply declined...