Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slap blop. "...And then..."Gouge gouge. "...Lincoln underwent the most extreme change in years..." Squeeze slap slap. "...He parted his hair on the other side..." Sloop...
Auntie Mame. The Mame's the same -that is, wonderfully wacky and intermittently funny-whether played by Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO or Sylvia Sidney in LINCOLN, TOPEKA, Sioux CITY and OMAHA...
This year's concert was exemplary on all counts. The light pieces, such as the folk-song arrangements, were not trivial. The modern works showed effective vocal writing, especially Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club. The selections from Mozart's Zauberflote provided music which was almost so profound as to be out of place. And there were, of course, the football songs, about which any commentary would be superfluous, if not sacrilegious...
...Lincoln-Mercury showrooms this week, well-heeled auto buyers inspected the new $10,238 Mark IV Continental limousine. Priced nearly $3,000 above the top of the 1957 line, a $7,500 convertible, the Continental includes as standard equipment $2,044 worth of accessories and usually optional equipment. These range from a $25 chrome curb-guard molding, up through electric doorlocks ($59.15 for four doors) to dual radios ($152.70 apiece) and dual air conditioners ($440 apiece). When the retractable curved-glass partition between the front and back seats is up, passengers and chauffeur can listen to different radio programs...
...meeting, the Society decided to give grants of $200 from its treasury funds to the NAACP, $75 to both Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and to Fisk University in Tennessee, as well as numerous smaller gifts to organizations aimed at alleviating race problems...