Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also been a sore point for years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
...Bull Run, Colonel Sherman got his baptism of blood. The "sickening confusion [of] a field strewed with dead men and horses" affected him so sharply that he later warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
Toast of the Town now pays Sullivan $125,000 a year (compared with his $35,000 annual income from the News), and beginning this week the sponsor, Lincoln-Mercury, will pay more than $2,225,000 to keep the show on for its fourth year of television. Sullivan, who is a little dizzied by these boxcar numbers, remembers that the talent on his first program, including Rodgers & Hammerstein, who worked for nothing, cost only $270. He says: "We couldn't get the same people today for less than...
...Atherton; 2, Phil DuBois; 3, Ollie Iselin; 4, Link Boyden; 5, Steve Hedberg; 6, Lee Rouner; 7, George Gifford; stroke, Lou McCagg; cox, George Walker, J.V.I. Bow, Asp; 2, Keniston; 3, Bliss; 4, Slocum; 5, Anderson; 6, Bohlen; 7, Peale; stroke, A. Rouner; cox, Clark. Freshmen: Bow, Maynard; 2, Lincoln; 3, Sundquist; 4, Hagoort; 5, Geertseema; 6, Goodale; 7, Peterson; stroke, Brownell; cox, Mann...
Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...