Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silver-tongued old king of corn stood in the House, wrapped like an animated tamale in an American flag, and forced his colleagues to hear and act. He cried shame on those who accused proponents of the amendment of "extending their hands to anarchy and Communism." He attacked Ward McAllister, a leader of New York's "400" who had threatened to leave the country rather than pay the tax. "If some of our 'best people,' " he bawled, "prefer to leave the country rather than pay the tax of 2%, God pity the worst... Let them depart...
...executives who live for a day, like gaudy moths, in the bright light of the tax collector's investigators. Surtaxes consume their substance. They have no more chance of getting rich by saving than a Nebraska hog farmer of Bryan's day had of eating oysters with Ward McAllister...
When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...
Stillman Infirmary officials have opened a 49-bed ward to meet overflow conditions in the regular building. The daily number of patients has been steadily increasing for the last four weeks and yesterday reached...
Some of the hurlers, including the number one starter Bob Ward, have been working out informally in the cage for nearly a month. As a result, they were throwing fairly hard yesterday...