Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Tarzan (1918) was strong, silent Elmo Lincoln. Best-known was Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, who eventually grew too fat, after appearing in twelve of the 25 pictures (in his six most memorable ones, Maureen O'Sullivan played Jane). Three other Olympic athletes have also been Tarzans: Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glenn Morris...
...word "guilty" resounded 24 times through the courtroom. He wanted sentence deferred for a month. Two days earlier, in his 130-minute summation, corny Counsel Palmer had invoked St. Matthew ("Judge not, that ye be not judged"), Omar Khayyam ("The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on"), Abraham Lincoln, the golden rule and George Washington Carver. Now he was abusing Shakespeare: "They've got their pound of flesh," he trumpeted. "Do they want the blood with...
...University of Illinois' James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
Mann, Daniel of 671 Gholson, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Manos, Eli of 2239 West 11th Street, Cleveland; Lincoln High, Cleveland. Mansfield, Harvey Claflin, Jr. of 146 Glenmont Avenue, Columbus; North High, Columbus. Miller, Roger Heering of 225 Auduban Park, Dayton; Roosevelt High, Dayton. Scheig, Robert Lee of 1516 Genessee Avenue N. E., Warren; University School Cleveland...
Baum, Leonard of 2 Amherst Street, Brooklyn; Abraham Lincoln High School. Schwartz, Herman of 1492 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Soule, William Lamson of 2794 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Freimer, Marshall Leonard of 392 East 4th Street, Brooklyn; Erasmus Hall High School...