Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found what he needed. Stories of Soviet espionage abounded; the long fingers of Communism had been caught all too convincingly in Washington ; the nation, only recently run through the shattering experience of the Alger Hiss trial, was nervous. In Wheeling, W. Va. Joe McCarthy stood before a Lincoln Day audience, waved a piece of paper and cried with melodramatic certainty that "I have here in my hand" a list of Government employees known by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be members of the Communist Party. Later listeners said McCarthy put the total of the list at 205; Joe denied...
Famed chiefly for his bestselling recreations of great events (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died), Author Bishop insists that he is "not to be confused with a pundit." "Most of all," he assured readers, "I like to write stories about little people . . . A story a day. Each one, I hope, with a thought-provoking moral." In its first three weeks the column heart-warmed readers with stories about Bandleader Frankie Carle, "little man at the big piano"; Bishop's little mother, "a short, stout woman [with] a beautiful figure"; his two little daughters; an auto accident...
State Department press officer Lincoln White made the charge of foreign intervention at a news conference in response to requests for U.S. government reaction to charges made in Moscow yesterday...
...bodkin-tongued, America-baiting Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford,* 52, was induced to refight the Revolutionary War by the New York Herald Tribune's Paris Postscripter Art Buchwald. Asked what American she dislikes most, gentle Nancy, whose foot has never touched U.S. soil, replied: "Abraham Lincoln. I detest Abraham Lincoln. When I read the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot, I was so afraid he would go to the wrong theater. What was the name of that beautiful man who shot him?" "John Wilkes Booth." "Yes, I liked him very much!" Does Nancy like any other Americans...
Married. Charles Lincoln Van Doren...