Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Hay-Adams House, Walter White has always regarded himself as a Negro. He remembers that his father's house was almost burned down during an Atlanta race riot in his childhood. He recalls too that his father died in agony when the surgeons of the white ward of an Atlanta hospital, to which he had been mistakenly taken for an emergency operation, balked upon learning his race and insisted on shipping him in the rain to the Negro ward across the street...
Since museum authorities were unavailable over the weekend, there has as yet been no definite information as to just what was stolen. Lauriston Ward and Frank Orchard, assistant curators, declared, however, that some of the objects taken were "priceless...
...famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking Co. backed the organization of a third major league, the Federal League, with clubs in Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo, Newark, Brooklyn. With fat salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
...pink, in a style heavily reminiscent of Marie Laurencin and spiced with Degas and Renoir, were pictures in a musicomedy adaptation of 1900 costumes: drinking at cafes, riding on merry-go-rounds, many another simplified scene. Almost immediately the artist, 26-year-old, blonde Suzanne Eisendieck, became a ward of the Leicester Galleries, and a story straight out of La Vie de Boheme turned toward a happy ending...