Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidate for the most banal picture was a meat-calendarish illustration of Putnam Called From the Plow by John Ward Dunsmore, A. N. A. Slickest portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
Head of Gyp for three decades has been a suave, nimble-witted gentleman who today is more famed as the president-chairman of another and noncompetitive corporation. Montgomery Ward & Co. Gyp's Sewell Lee Avery was picked to pull the floundering mail-order house from its red depths. He did. Last year Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward...
SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE - Laura E. Richards - Appleton-Century ($2.50). Filial biography of Julia Ward Howe's husband, by the 85-year-old author of Captain January (middleaged onetime youngsters will remember...
While the CRIMSON is editorially spanking the University for lack of competent doctors and the shortcomings of Stillman, I should like to put in a good word for the nursing staff that watched over me during an imprisonment of seven days in ward...
Each contestant must seize his charts from the ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...