Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulted the past. Washington's Farewell Address and Monroe's Doctrine have been found to mean one thing at one time and another at another time. Sacred text has been found to sanction isolationism and, within a very brief interval, interventionism and internationalism as well . . ." Meanwhile, the Lincoln legend has been bent to accommodate almost every shade of opinion. "At the same time [that] the Communists were claiming him, Lincoln was also hailed as patron saint by the Vegetarians, the Socialists, the Prohibitionists, and a proponent of Union Now-not to mention the Republicans and Democrats ... As Senator...
...likes to tell of the time he was invited to pinch-hit for a speaker at a Lincoln Day celebration and offered $250 and expenses. He wired back: "I don't know that much about Lincoln." Then, he says: 'T studied up a bit on Lincoln hoping they'd ask me back, but they never did." A few years ago. when he was invited to be a summer guest preacher at famed Wellington Church in his home city of Glasgow, he jubilantly wrote his mother the news. "Dear Jamie." she replied, "accept the honor but decline...
...Quest. In Atlantic City, N.J., Harry Biglin, after serving six months in prison for car theft, 1) stole a 1949 Lincoln and then abandoned it for a newer model, 2) drove to Mount Holly and stole a 1953 Cadillac, 3) drove the Cadillac ten miles to Falls Township, Pa., where he abandoned it for a 1954 Mercury, 4) after his arrest, told officials: "A new automobile always fascinated...
CARL F. OLENBERGER JR. Lincoln...
Milk deliveries will be curtailed throughout New England today as over 250 "horses" congregate in Rhode Island for the 1954 opening of Lincoln Downs...