Word: abrahams
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even Gore's note-perfect concession speech--brief, unbowed, ruefully funny and unabashedly patriotic--carried a dire subtext. The Vice President quoted Stephen Douglas' concession to Abraham Lincoln after the 1860 election: "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I'm with you, Mr. President, and God bless you." But when Douglas offered those uplifting words, the nation was weeks away from the Civil...
...Suspicious that Jamal’s talent for writing is illegitimate—“He’s a basketball player. From the Bronx”—Crawford endeavors to have him expelled. As Crawford’s role becomes prominent late in the film, Abraham dutifully slogs through a series of embarrassing scenes, trying to maintain some semblance of professionalism in the face of an increasingly obnoxious story...
Coincidence? I think not. For those of you who are skeptics, I'll run through the progression of dead presidents: President Abraham Lincoln, elected in 1860, was assassinated in a theater in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, who seemed to think he was helping the South. President James Garfield, elected in 1880, was assassinated by a not-too-sane man who would have preferred Chester Arthur as President...
James Bullock, Deepak Abraham and Andrew Merrill cruised to victory in the middle of the lineup, and Isaac Whitman, Barry and Thomas Storch proved equally dominant in the bottom three positions...
...Edie Adams B Jamie Lee Curtis C Harry Houdini D Thomas Jefferson E Hedy Lamarr F Abraham Lincoln G Zeppo Marx H Paul Revere I Lillian Russell J Mark Twain...