Lengthy dedication addresses like Everett's were common at cemeteries in this era.
The tradition began in 1831 when Justice Joseph Story delivered the dedication address at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Former New York Governor Horatio Seymour delivered a dedication address at the monument to an audience of about 10,000 persons, saying: Years after the massacre, Benjamin Stacy's home village of New Salem, Massachusetts celebrated the annual Old Home Day holiday with a Benjamin Stacy footrace, honoring his escape at Cherry Valley.
This is maddening, and notable, of course, but, in the spirit of the film — and of Lee's dedication to addressing Jackson's work head-on — he doesn't bother to linger on this fact.
We thank the president for his dedication to addressing these complex issues, and respectfully urge members of Congress to send a strong, bipartisan reform bill to his desk this year, and reject proposals that could harm U.S. competitiveness and eliminate jobs.
Both are aware that there is a huge community out there in America that needs their dedication and direction addressing these issues through the very agencies that they will have the power to control once they inhabit the West Wing -- the CDC, the NIH, the HHS, the EPA and FDA.
Professor Abrams has not yet presented the evidence, but in an interview he described it as having to do with connections between the Shakespeare family of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Peter family of Devonshire, in particular William and his brother, John, to whom the dedication of the elegy was addressed.
John Bolton had done a "fabulous job", he insisted, serving his country with extraordinary dedication and skill and assembling coalitions that addressed some of the most consequential issues of the day.
In the well-known, 'A Dedication to my Wife', Eliot concludes: 'this dedication is for others to read: / These are private words, addressed to you in public.' Can this be true of 'How the Tall Girl and I Play Together', 'Sleeping Together' or 'How the Tall Girl's Breasts Are'?
Oakland's mayor, Ronald V. Dellums, put it succinctly when he addressed an interfaith service at the cathedral on Sept. 26, a day after its dedication.
