Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln Tunnel makes a dime every time a car goes through. How much money do you think Lamont's front door makes every morning? And who gets it? Deserving young athletes? Oh, no. That blonde in the front office, my fines alone paid for all the furniture in her Beacon Street apartment...
...varsity A squash team beat Lincoln's Inn, 4 to 1, in spite of Don Scott's victory over the Crimson's number one man, Hadden Tomes...
...John Cabell Breckinridge (1857-61) complained that President James Buchanan consulted him only once-and that was on the wording of a Thanksgiving proclamation. But if he found the vice presidency dull, the rest of his life was not. He ran for President against Lincoln, splitting the Democratic vote and assuring the defeat of Stephen Douglas, later became a combat major general in the Confederacy, and then its Secretary of War. He refused to surrender, fled to Cuba, stole a ship, became a pirate, moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored...
...Willys Motors announced a new two-passenger sports car, the Kaiser Darrin 161, designed by Howard A. Darrin, who has done cars for Packard and Lincoln as well as custom cars for Rita Hayworth and Errol Flynn. Like Chevrolet's Corvette, the Darrin 161 has a plastic body that weighs but 300 lbs. (total weight: 2,175 lbs.). Powered by a six-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine, it has six forward speeds and doors that slide into the front fenders instead of opening outward. Factory list price...
...Freshman B's topped Lincoln Inn, 4-1, and number one man Hen Hockschor, Cal Place, Tony Ostheimer, and Doug Gardner each registerd wins. The only match the Inn picked up was at number three, with Jim Hammond the loser...