Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Just before dawn one morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...
Long lines of Freshmen waiting a turn at the Union's more or less palatable offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
Declining to comment yesterday on the effectiveness of a University contingent at the polls, Cambridge politicians could not minimize the weight of a possible 9000 politically conscious veteran students. Under the old system of voting by Wards, a medium-strong Harvard effort in Cambridge's Ward 6 could swamp the undermanned electorate...
...school system was "tolerable verging on poor." Where and When to Register DATES HOURS PLACES Oct. 10, 14, 15 8:30 - 4:30 Election Commission-362 Green Street just off Central Square. Evenings Oct. 10, 14, 15 7:00 - 9:00 Same. Oct. 10 7:00 -9:00 Ward 10-Fire House, Taylor Square, junction of Huron Avenue, Garden and Sherman Streets. Oct. 10, 14 7:00 - 9:00 Ward 1-Kelley School 48 Willow St. Oct. 10, 14 7:00 - 9:00 Ward 9-Russell School, Grozier Road entrance...