Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took three witnesses with me, and at the same time we saw four other little babies looking out of iron bars begging Almighty God somehow to get them into the sunlight. They were pallid and rat-eaten, so to speak, and a further description of the synthetic maternity ward was beyond human description...
...Daniel Webster Hoan live in a cheap little frame house in Milwaukee's unfashionable 17th Ward. They have lived there for 18 years. The Hoans's living room overflows with overstuffed furniture, a radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...
...Sears & Ward- Last week Sears' President Robert E. Wood issued his Golden Jubilee annual report, which made an interesting comparison with the 64th annual report published last fortnight by Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery. Sears showed net sales of $392,000,000, up 23% from the year before. Ward's sales of $293,000,000 were the highest in its history, yet the gain from the previous twelve-month period was only 17%. Sears reported profits of $21,500,000, a 43% increase. On this item Ward did better than Sears, showing a 47% gain from...
...Boylston Prizes are of older origin, having been founded in 1817 by Ward Nichols Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston. He established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position at present held in emeritus by Charles Townsend Copelaud '82, who was honorary judge of the speeches last night...
Ridicule has always been a telling weapon in the fight against society's foibles, from Aristophanes to Sir' Roger de Coverly, and from Artemus Ward to H. L. Mencken. Such an attempt at ridicule as Princeton's may be too obvious to call forth more than a tolerantly amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return...