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Thread #132499   Message #4086510
Posted By: Lighter
04-Jan-21 - 06:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Visalia (Calif.) Daily Times, Aug. 23, 1926, on the death of Robert Tod Lincoln:

"The passing, last week, of the last remaining direct ancestor--by the
name of Lincoln--of the great Civil war [sic] President occasioned modest mention in the telegraphic news of the country."

(With thanks to my colleague, Garson O'Toole.)