Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans for radical expansion of the Harvard Forestry School at Petersham were revealed yesterday by Ward Shepard '10, director of the school...
...haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly...
That makeshift ward recently became a subject of scandal when Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association threatened to bring it to the attention of "the medical profession and the people of America." On a visit to it he had found 27 patients using ten three-quarter beds (two resting and one waiting his turn), and men and women suffering from tuberculosis and other contagious diseases placed near children of six and seven years...
...Northwestern's main campus is in suburban Evanston. On its Chicago Campus are medical and dental schools (for which Mrs. Montgomery Ward gave $3,000,000), a law school, a business school...
Gulla Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor...