Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to the drama section of the Harvard library) and the promise of production of the prize play for at least a week at the Castle Square. Craig gave the award for six years prior to the war and all six plays proved financially successful. The first, Florence Lincoln's End of the Bridge ran nine weeks, then two weeks in Chicago, and was revived for two weeks in Boston the next year. The third, Frederick Ballard's Believe Me, Xantippo, ran 11 weeks, breaking all previous records for runs at the Castle Square and then moved to New York...
...most of the year he lives in South Lincoln. He commutes daily, spending his mornings at the Tennis and Squash Shop on Mount Auburn St. He goes over to Hemenway just after noon for his afternoons of coaching...
Bruce Catton is a journalist (the Nation) who has spent three years making the Civil War sound as fresh and exciting as if it had been fought yesterday. In A Stillness at Appomattox, he ends the story of the Army of the Potomac that he began with Mr. Lincoln's Army and continued with Glory Road. Once again, without stinting the strategies of the generals, he digs into regimental histories and private diaries to create a lively sense of the common soldier performing his uncommon chore of fighting and dying...
...ROGER LINCOLN SHINN Professor of Philosophy and Religion Heidelberg College Tiffin, Ohio...
...queen," sobbed Cheryl. "I've never seen a real, live queen!" But King Paul kept his date, and, as his 18-car motorcade stopped in front of the Smiths' frame house, Cheryl began to cheer up. "Cadillacs, Cadillacs," she sighed, as the King climbed out of his Lincoln. "Nothing but Cadillacs...