Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron, Ohio 52 Sullivan, Jeremiah M. '61 20 6:0 211 Old Orchard Beach, Me. 54 Szvetecz, Frank C. '60 21 6:0 204 Bethlehem, Pa. 53 Van Dervoort, R.L. Jr. '62 19 6:0 198 Lincoln, Neb. BACKS 29 Carlin, Philip E. '62 18 5:11 197 Columbus, Ohio 23 Cullen, Jay R. '60 21 5:10 184 Frankfort, Ky. 17 Goldman, Ronald E. '61 20 5:9 165 Beverly Hills, Calif. 21 Hagstrom, Jon '61 20 6:1 193 Gloucester, Mass. 43 Herrmann, Elmer...
...yonge Hugh of Lincoln, slayn also With cursed Jewes, as it is notable For it nis but a lit el whyle...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
Partially as a result of the story, things went hard for the Jews of England. Nearly 1,000 were jailed that year in London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only...
...Little "St." Hugh never made the official Catholic calendar of saints, is not to be confused with St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140-1200), who founded the first Carthusian Charterhouse in England, became bishop of Lincoln, and built the present cathedral. At his death he was deeply mourned by the Jews, whom he had defended and befriended...