Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorensen's remarks, quoted in your article about another talented Nebraska performer, remind me of the Nebraskan who died after moving to California. They brought his body to Lincoln for burial and one of his old lady friends, taking a last look at him in the casket, was heard to say: "Doesn't he look just fine! It sure did him a lot of good to move to California...
...Lincoln...
...George Lincoln Rockwell was a failure at just about everything he tried...
...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...
...almost from her birth on April 27, 1937, in Hastings, Neb. (pop. 15,412), where her father, Jack Dennis, was a bakery driver-salesman who also happened to have a tested IQ of 160. After the war, Jack joined the post office as a railway mail clerk based in Lincoln (pop. 98,884), where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly gobbled six or seven books a week, favoring Willa...