Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Horsemen. Republican Chairman Leonard W. Hall hurled the first gauntlet in the presence of his national committee, which assembled in Washington in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the G.O.P.'s centennial and the opening of the 1954 election campaign. "I sometimes wonder," said Hall, warming to his assignment, "whose interests these left-wingers think they are serving by their incessant talk of slump, recession and depression." Hall said that they were silent in 1950, when unemployment was double what...
Fear Deal or Fumble. The President of the U.S. entered the fray in a vigorous political speech at a G.O.P. rally in Washington's Uline Arena, took his cue from the heritage of Lincoln: "Let us not be afraid to be humble as he was humble when it was necessary . . . When it comes down to [preserving] this nation . . . let us be just as courageous as Lincoln was courageous...
...Republican Party, he went on, "is the best political instrument available in this country" for making certain that every individual American has the opportunity to make of himself what he can, with the Federal Government acting as a sympathetic big brother. By following President Lincoln's example, the President said, We "don't have to listen to the prophets of gloom who say that we are going to go into a kind of stumble or fumble or fall...
...hours." After this, things grew slightly confused. Winter says that Sabino borrowed his charge plate at a department store to buy a pair of shoes, but bought $800 worth of clothes instead, and then talked him out of a 21-in. television set. Sabino "bought" John's Lincoln convertible, promising part payment in dance lessons...
Healthy girls-good food, probably. A country that had all those beautiful girls would be a good place for ballet." At that crucial point, he met a young American named Lincoln Kirstein who had exactly the same idea...