Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln at Clinton...
Referring to your article, "Dishonest Abe," in which you assert that Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time . . ." etc. [TIME...
...Burks Summers, peering through the smoky, klieg-lighted glare of Washington's Uline Arena at some 12,000 happy Republicans. Senators, Congressmen and plain citizens, they filled every seat, sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, munched the chicken legs of the new "poor man's" Lincoln Day box supper (cost $1), danced to Fred Waring's orchestra, sang with Cinemactor George Murphy, shouted themselves hoarse. Cried G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "From this night on, the Republican Party is going to be the strongest, most active and vigorous opposition party ever known!" (" 'ray!") When Ohio...
...Lincoln Finds a General, by Kenneth Williams. The first two volumes of a four-volume Unionside history of the Civil War, a work that tops anything yet done in its field (TIME...
...yesterday's squash matches, the varsity C team lost to the Lincoln's Inn Society of the Law School, 4 to 1, and the freshman C's beat the Maugus Club, 3 to 2. Both matches were played at Hemenway...