Johnson
['dʒɒns(ə)n]
Definition
(noun.) 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875).
(noun.) 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973).
(noun.) English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784).
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Examples
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Johnson, fresh from his successes in England. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Denis Johnson patented in England in 1818 a similar vehicle which he named the Pedestrian Curricle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Johnson, who was Edison's shrewd recruiting sergeant in those days: I resigned sooner than Johnson expected, and he had me on his hands. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- EDWARD JOHNSON'S Division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mary was in her usual corner, laughing over Mrs. Piozzi's recollections of Johnson, and looked up with the fun still in her face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Johnson and Hammer put into practice many of the ideas now standard in the art, and secured much useful data for the work in New York, of which the story has just been told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- True, continued Johnson; you were the one to make that very distinction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I reported at the office of Mr. Edison on Fifth Avenue and told him I had seen Johnson. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tom Johnson didn't show the people the City on the Hill. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I always have a large order to give to Johnson's, the day after a concert. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- All through 1881 Johnson was very busy, for his part, in England. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Johnson had had a few Edison lamps in London, lit up from primary batteries, as a demonstration; and in the summer of 1880 Swan had had a few series lamps burning in London. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Johnson's course towards the South did engender bitterness of feeling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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