Word: wadsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand total of $63,000 from 6,863 alumni has been received thus far in 1935 it was revealed in the tenth annual meeting of the Harvard Fund Council held yesterday in Wadsworth House. The total amount raised since the establishment of the fund ten years ago has now reached $1,215,994 contributed by 16,456 alumni...
...went down at the eighth fence. They saw a tragedy when Trouble Maker, record-holder for the course, one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. for the last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year-old, Hotspur II, was leading when Trouble Maker went down. Captain Kettle, ridden by Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast as the field went over the last two jumps. On the home stretch...
...fine thing!" said bald, blue-blooded Representative Wadsworth of New York, who would not be averse to leading his party toward the White House next year...
...rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards, for all the modernist idols--except the obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their...
While the manager of the theatre where Within the Gates was to have been performed ruefully returned thousands of dollars worth of advance orders for tickets, John Tuerk, one of the play's producers, snorted: "Boston politicians have certainly made damn fools of Bostonians again." Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana announced that he was going to give a public reading of the play to see what the civic authorities would...