Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holidays at the White House got under way on Christmas Eve, in the East Room, when Ike and Mamie greeted 516 members of the staff, and presented each with a handsome folder containing a color reproduction of one of Ike's latest paintings: a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied from an 1863 photograph. Early Christmas morning, the President, with his wife and mother-in-law, left the gaily decked White House, drove through the silent, deserted streets of Washington, and flew off to Georgia for a family reunion. At Fort Benning they stopped briefly for a light lunch...
FROM now on stockholders will be able to trade on the New York Stock Exchange three more days a year. The Board of Governors has voted to stay open on Lincoln's Birthday, Columbus Day, and Armistice Day for the first time in decades...
...Democratic Senator has won a presidential nomination since Stephen Douglas ran against Lincoln...
...normally busy Lincoln and Civil War branches of the publishing industry almost ground to a halt, but two fine items more than saved the day for the specialists. One was nothing less than The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln in eight bulging volumes, which brought to a close a 29-year job of loving scholarship by the Abraham Lincoln Association. The other was A Stillness at Appomattox, the last of three lively volumes detailing the history of the Army of the Potomac. It was the job of a journalist, Bruce Catton, but no scholar had done it nearly so well...
...biographies tackled subjects from the great age of exploration and produced fresh material and absorbing stories: Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were...