Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halleck has come to insert a "Lincoln" in his father's name because, as a brother explains, it "sounds good to say that in Lincoln Day speeches...
Since the war, lanky (6 ft. 3 in.), witty George Kistiakowsky has sandwiched a series of special defense jobs between his experimental work and teaching duties at Harvard. He lives with his wife, Nebraska-born Irma Shuler, in Lincoln, Mass., likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...
Died. John Cromwell Lincoln, 92, founder (1893) of Lincoln Electric Co., one of the world's largest welding-equipment manufacturers, inventor who took out more than 50 patents for electrical devices, owner of a real estate empire reputed to be worth $100 million, pamphleteer who promoted the single-tax ideas of Henry George and ran for U.S. Vice President in 1924 on the single-tax platform of the Commonwealth Land Party; in Scottsdale. Ariz...
...Kewanee (Ill.) Star-Courier, Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Times, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Muscatine (Iowa) Journal, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier, Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star, LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune, Madison (Wis.) State Journal...