Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave. It was charged that he sold his secrets to a mysterious German known as Otto Waldemar Obst. Major Shapcott pointed out that Obst sounds like Oberst which means Colonel. (That Obst means "fruit" was not brought for-ward.) For these secrets it was charged that Baillie-Stewart received two letters signed "Marie Louise," one containing ten ?5 notes, the other four ?10 notes...
...students? Oh, they all get into the ward upstairs, where they can talk over cases. Ah! My lunch! Well, so long. Hope' you can make up the time you wasted here. See that fellow over there? Well, he'd sell his soul for this piece of steak. Mmmm. But he's on a liquid diet. Broke his law at the Cotton Club...
...CRIMSON, huh? 'Fraid you won't find much copy around here." The student returned to his book, kicking the bedclothes into a more comfortable position, and relaxing indifferently upon the white-enamelled bed in a ward of Stillman Infirmary. After a while he looked back uncertainly at the reporter...
...York and John Patrick O'Brien last autumn when Tammany Boss Curry threw O'Brien into the mayoral gap left by Jimmy Walker. Said Acting Mayor Corr: "I didn't even know I was a candidate. . . . I have no feeling of elation." Outside his own ward, where he has been Democratic chairman for 25 years, few Chicagoans ever heard of him. Born in Brooklyn 56 years ago, he was taken to Chicago twelve years later, began practicing law there in 1899. He was Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1923 to 1931, is considered an expert on building & zoning...
...Founders of the original Oxford Movement (Rome-ward), which many a higher-churchman than Dr. Macartney furiously resents confusing -especially since its centenary is to be celebrated next summer-with Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's stylish evangelistics...