Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi-final match Johnny Goodman, Omaha insurance salesman nosed out Marvin ("Bud") Ward, Tacoma tax clerk. That left Goodman v. Billows for the final...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...attention by the Medical Staff, during office hours, in the Hygiene Building or elsewhere on University grounds. Medical stations are also maintained at the School of Business Administration, the Law School, the Medical School, and at Dillon Field House. The Medical and Infirmary fee covers two weeks of ward care during the academic year in Stillman Infirmary or similar service in any one of the Boston hospitals associated with the Harvard Medical School...
...Evanston City Council concluded that it did not have any jurisdiction over lions, either. Then Alderman Eddy S. Brandt, of the Sixth Ward, rose and made a motion that "lions and tigers and other wild animals" be kept to the west of Evanston. Mayor Henry D. Penfield added: "I now move that the reference include the Evanston Lion's Club." The Council shouted approval, but the motion, as amended, was hastily shuttled off to the judiciary committee, leaving King Tuffy still in Evanston...
...first month, drew him into a circle of accomplished thieves, big-time bank robbers, Socialists. This organization centred at the carpenter shop, was respected by the guards, smuggled in tobacco and books, got its members transferred to the best jobs by wire-pulling as elaborate as any in ward politics. But to keep in with the group that made prison life bearable called for more courage than Mansell possessed. For ten months microscopic amounts of dynamite were stolen from the quarry, until enough was collected for a sizeable explosion. The plan-hinging on bribery of guards and perfect timing...