Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Hewlett, a 39-year-old laborer of Hull, England, had served almost three years of a five-year sentence for stealing 20 bicycles; then he suddenly went blind. Under Britain's "prerogative of mercy," the rest of his sentence was remitted. The governor of Lincoln Prison gave Howlett a white cane and advised him to take training for the blind...
...with classical overtones has made his work grow steadily in popularity if not in critical reputation. During World War II, the Minute Man adorned millions of U.S. stamps and war bond posters. Later French sculptures, like the John Harvard who sits pondering his philanthropy in Harvard Yard and the Lincoln of Washington's Lincoln Memorial, had long since become as familiar to Americans' as Longfellow's Hiawatha...
...mementos she included some more personal ones: French's mallets and chisels, cuff links, and a golden lock of hair clipped when he was three. Also on show was a life cast of French's sinewy hand, which turned out to be precisely like that of the Lincoln in Washington...
...Miss Darrah's day, 90% of the children in the survey picked their heroes from history and letters. Washington and Lincoln led the list, followed by John Greenleaf Whittier, Clara Barton, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus. Few of them gave first place to living notables; even such national characters as Champion Skater John S. Johnson and Heavyweight James J. Corbett rated only a handful of votes...
Today's teen-agers turned out to be less impressed by the past than by the present. Only 33% of them picked their heroes & heroines from history. (Franklin Roosevelt had passed Washington and Lincoln in this department, though Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...