Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After missing nine out of nine last year the old Clocker Spaniel hesitantly dusts off his Crystal Ball for his predictions on the local horse racing opener at Lincoln Downs. Nine races are on tap, with the track listed as slow...
...night, after reading Lincoln Steffens' auto-biography, he told his wife that he was tired of ghosting, and was going to New York to land Steffens' old job as police reporter for the Post. He went to New York the next day, and when he returned to Washington that night...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
Died. James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana...
...consolation existed for Edwin Booth. In a railway station one day, he saw a young man, jostled by the crowd, fall between the platform and the wheels of a moving train. Booth sprang forward, pulled him up, and saved his life. The young man was Abraham Lincoln's son Robert...