Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resting place of many of America's most distinguished dead among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...
Only once did Mrs. Palmer let down the bars. Managing her Son Honore's campaign for a seat on the City Council, she shrewdly invited 500 members of the 21st Ward Marching Club to the Castle. More at home in West Side brothels and saloons, they arrived behind a brass band. As they filed in Mrs. Palmer, in elaborate evening clothes and a diamond necklace, personally thanked each & every one of them for their political efforts in her son's behalf. Honore Palmer was elected, served two terms...
Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native...
...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
...Telephone Co. he enlisted in the National Guard, saw active service along the Mexican border and went to France as first lieutenant of infantry with the A. E. F. Badly wounded and invalided home, Allen settled after the War in Charleston, S. C., where he collaborated with DuBose Hey ward on a book of poems (Carolina Chansons) and in founding the Poetry Society of South Carolina. After a job at Columbia University he lectured for two years at Vassar. One of his undergraduate listeners was Ann Hyde Andrews, whom he afterwards married. They went to Bermuda, spent five years there...