Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League match yesterday, the varsity 'C' team shut out the Lincoln's Inn Society, 5 to 0, on the losers' courts. The winners have swept all six of their league matches and have a good chance of winning their division title...
Died. Bushman, 22, Cameroons-born Chicago celebrity, since 1930 the star attraction at Lincoln Park Zoo; of a heart attack; in Chicago. One of the biggest (550 Ibs.) and most ferocious-looking gorillas ever seen in a zoo, Bushman loved spectators, endeared himself to them with good-natured hamming...
...bustle belonged to Atlanta's new librarian. Two years ago, when Atlantans voted 1,700,000 to expand their 48-year-old Carnegie Library and its string of branches, the city gave the top job to fast-moving, chain-smoking John Carl Settlemayer, 38, onetime director of the Lincoln, Neb. library...
...prevail in the world-as it shall not prevail*-Dean Acheson would be one of the first, if not the first, to be shot by the enemies of liberty and Christianity . . . These recent attacks on Mr. Acheson are . . . the same sort of thing that happened to Seward. President Lincoln was asked by a group of Republicans to dismiss Secretary of State Seward. He refused. So do I refuse to dismiss Acheson . . ." When he came to the final sentence, President Truman slapped the manuscript to his desk with the flat of his hand. That, said the gesture, was that...
...talkative mood. He painted a lively picture of his rags-to-riches career, even showed pictures of some of his prized possessions: a laundry business in Paterson, N.J., a $400,000 house in Deal, N.J., a $45,000 house in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., a 1948 Cadillac, a 1949 Lincoln. He added casually that for incidental expenses he usually kept about $30,000 in cash around the house...