Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford's pace-setting 1949 model, has been named vice president in charge of styling, responsible for producing the new series to compete with Chrysler, Oldsmobile and Buick in the $3,100 to $3,500 price range, midway between Ford's most expensive Mercury and its cheapest Lincoln...
...Henri's pupils moved to New York, Henri followed them. Setting up his own school in upper Broadway's Lincoln Arcade, Henri attracted young art students in droves. Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night...
...garbled narrative that is neither stream-of-consciousness nor adult conversation nor childhood recall. Although this style intrigued me to the point of distraction, I did gather that Buechler's story was an attempt to conjure up the spirit of the men who left their homes to join the Lincoln Brigade and fight Franco. I don't think the deep and unseeing idealism of these men quite comes through; Buechler's main character seems more like a burbling Scout Master than someone who could have fought side-by-side with Orwell in Catalonia...
...secretaries is a little overpowering for a girl." But her burble with the Brass was only one of the quick trips through which Arlene whirled her Home audience (weekdays, 11 a.m., NBC) in a five-day visit to Washington. There were breathless stops at all the tourist musts-the Lincoln Memorial, Supreme Court, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow to be combined with the bread-and-butter necessity of working in commercials. Home solved...
...nominated for the presidency. In 1916 Charles Evans Hughes, then an Associate Justice, accepted the G.O.P. nomination, was defeated by Woodrow Wilson, returned to the court in 1930 as Chief Justice. In 1872 Associate Justice David Davis, appointed to the court a decade earlier by his good friend Abraham Lincoln, accepted the Labor Reform Party's nomination, hoping that it would be a steppingstone to victory in the Liberal Republican convention. When the Liberal Republicans turned him down, Davis withdrew from the Labor nomination, did not resign from the court...