Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certainly it's an assumption that must be made by anybody who believes in the American tradition. It was in that belief that our nation was founded. It's expressed in the Federalist Papers. It is expressed by Abraham Lincoln . . . He said: 'The Declaration of Independence . . . gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.' It means in due course the weight should be lifted from the shoulders...
...Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln cars, to cancel its share of the CBS show, Sullivan quickly found another, Eastman Kodak, eager to split the annual $10 million tab with Mercury cars. He also found a staunch defender when New York Herald Tribune Critic John Crosby wrote of his TV longevity: "There is a great lesson in this...
...monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand to cry "Halt...
...guarded doors last week, the new models were already being warmed up for their attack on the 1958 market, and no one was taking much for granted. Ford will introduce a brand-new car in its medium-priced Edsel, G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac and Ford's Lincoln will be completely done over...
Ford has completely restyled the 1958 Lincoln. The Mark II Continental has been discontinued, but Ford has saved the name for its highest-priced Lincoln, which will be set apart by different trim, quality gadgets such as a retractable back-up light. Ford hopes to make Lincoln 1958's handsomest auto. In any case, it will certainly be the largest-229 in. in overall length, 3 in. longer than Chrysler's Imperial, and 9 in. longer than G.M.'s competing Cadillac...