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''choleric'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜_encounter｜ENC｜20260904161329-35-•
Lincoln ordered the release of Frank Blair, but when that choleric congressman threatened to bring charges against Frémont, the Pathfinder once again arrested him, only to have General Scott countermand his act. Lincoln’s calm handling of the controversy pleased Frank Blair’s sister Elizabeth. She hoped that the president’s “cool way of doing things will … teach the Blairs a lesson not to rush on at things or people so violently.” But Lincoln was not always decorous in handling Frémont’s champions. To a friend of the Pathfinder, Lincoln abruptly declared: “Sir, I believe General Frémont to be a thoroughly honest man, but he has unfortunately surrounded himself with some of the greatest scoundrels on this continent; you are one of them and the worst of them.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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''decorous'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜_encounter｜ENC｜20260915190735-42-•
I dialled the first three numbers fast, then began to slow down. I got as far as 955-960 before stopping altogether. I stood there in the hall with the phone pressed against my ear, visualizing another headline, this one not in the decorous Times but the rowdy New York Post. NOVELIST TO AGING COMPU-KING: “YOU BIG BULLY!” Along with side-by-side pictures of me, looking roughly my age, and Max Devore, looking roughly a hundred and six. The Post would have great fun telling its readers how Devore (along with his companion, an elderly lady who might weigh ninety pounds soaking wet) had lumped up a novelist half his age—a guy who looked, in his photograph, at least, reasonably trim and fit.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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