Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just 120 years ago, in 1817, Ward Nicholas Boylston founded two Boylston Prizes for Elocution in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the professorship which bears his name today. The awards stipulated a competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be decided by finalists in an annual contest. Tonight, well over a century later, ten Harvard undergraduate finalists will do verbal battle in the Music Building for these prizes, and for their more recent counterpart, the Lee Wade Prize, founded...
...tail, Professor Fisher ap peared as a witness in their behalf, drawing from energetic Assistant U. S. Attorney William Power Maloney a challenge as to his economic competency. Mr. Fisher, he told the jury, was a "dusty old academic," "a slightly befuddled expert." Shown news stories of Roger Ward Babson's prediction of the 1929 crash, which were publicly pooh-poohed by Mr. Fisher at the time, the white-goateed old Professor declared...
...Noel was not cut out to be any kind of soldier. He fell down and bumped his head, was sent to a hospital. After some weeks in an epileptic ward he was kindly discharged with a temporary pension. Says he: "I was not in the least scarred by the war. It was little more to me at the time than a dully oppressive background. . . ." But it was a great relief to him to get back to the theatre and real life...
Through all these civic misadventures, one of the liveliest of Jefferson's four dailies was a sheet with the incomprehensible title of The Jimplecute. Colonel Ward Taylor had founded this paper in 1856 when his city was 20 years old and beginning to ride high. Its name came from the initials of the sheet's motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Everlastingly." Peak Jimplecute circulation, in the 1880s, was around 5,000. A Greenbacker in a Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...