Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...
...year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention by getting married in a civil ceremony...
...Charles Browne, Viscount Castle-rosse, England's No. i chitchat columnist (Daily Express), fell sick in London's Claridge's Hotel, he disobeyed his doctor's orders by continuing to gulp champagne, devour oysters, receive socialite friends. Result: his doctor moved him to a maternity ward...
...others: Rev. Cyril Charlie Martindale, London Jesuit; Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, Master of Oxford's Campion Hall. †f Sheed & Ward...
Thomas W. Ward '66, born October 8, 1844, wins the ribbon for being the only accredited graduate from the College's class and the third oldest to have studied here...