Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the twenties the Advocate held its sway in undergraduate literature, with such men as T.S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken figuring notably in its ranks. In the thirties, however, as the Advocate's concerns became increasingly political, there was another burst of dissension, and Lincoln Kirstein formed Hound and Horn, a short-lived critical review. Another magazine, The Critic, succumbed in 1934, when it voted to merge with the Advocate...
...Adams. He has created-with full backing from President Eisenhower-a unique and much-needed role in the modern American political machinery. By the way, it's hard to see how he could have skated to the music of Mozart and Chopin, piped to "Webster Lake, near his Lincoln home"; actually, he, while governor, and Mrs. Adams rented a home at Webster to be near Concord...
...cheek, Industrialist Watson explained why he was only nibbling at his roast beef: "Breakfast is my big meal. My mother always told us you had to start the day right, with plenty of warm food in your stomach." Hailing Dwight D. Eisenhower as the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln, Watson told Sullivan that the U.S. is in better shape than in Watson's boyhood. Snorting at reports of growing crime and juvenile delinquency, Thomas Watson summed up some bright spots in a survey of U.S. life made for his own enlightenment: "More churches are being built now, every...
...Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd, was born nine months less three days after the Lincolns were married. His left eye was crossed, and something prim, shy and self-contained in his personality rasped always against his father's. When Bob was small, Lincoln low-rated him as "the little rareripe sort, that are smarter at about five than ever after." Edward, the next son, died at three. It was of him Lincoln spoke ("Here one is buried") when, as President-elect, he bade goodbye to his Springfield neighbors. Third son William Wallace was a blue-eyed "blessed...
Pardon for Jack. On the inaugural train to Washington, it was just like Tad to bait dignitaries with the query "Do you want to see Old Abe?" and then gleefully point out some total stranger. To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy...