Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charity ward of a Los Angeles hospital last week lay a wrinkled little man with sparse grey hair combed straight back. The habitual frightened look of the sick poor dropped from his wizened face as newshawks approached. "Hell!" snapped the little man. "There's nothing wrong with me. Be out of here in a week." But reporters knew that, perhaps for the last time, they were seeing and hearing James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, great jockey, famed rounder, spender, one-time friend of millionaires and occasional toast of royalty...
...provocation, van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at Gauguin. The day following, he left a parcel at the brothel. It was his right ear, which he had cut off, wrapped up with clumsy neatness. Gauguin left, and soon after the Mayor ordered van Gogh locked up in the insane ward of the hospital. After that there was no telling when the mad fit would seize him, and he would scream till his throat was inflamed. At the asylum at Saint-Remy they let him paint, off & on, eventually released him in care of a doctor, nearer Paris and Theo...
...still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed drink.; Planters Punch .45, Claret Punch .35, Brandy Egg Nogg .50, Tom Collins .35, Gin Rickey .25, Ward "8" .45. The fizzes and sours range from .30 to .45, and the highballs from...
...leading man in the sprint division and if he maintains his pace of last year should have no trouble in holding down his position this season. In the century free-style, however, the situation is much more complicated and four men are in the field. John L. Ward '34, Abbot W. Sherwood, Jr. '35, Stanley M. Wyman '35, George Wightman '34 and Herbert M. Howe '34 are fighting for the top honors in the 100-yard free-style class. Howe is also in the running for the sprint event...
Promising candidates from last year's Freshman team are Peter Ward, Bernard C. McDonald, and James F. Donovan. The team will practice daily from 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock...