Word: ward
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High Marks. Howe was born in Waltham, Mass, to a family whose ancestors had been Americans for more than 200 years. U.S. Naval Hero Stephen Decatur was a collateral relative; Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, was a distant cousin. Howe's father was a carpenter who built small houses, one at a time. Howe went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, got high marks, and stayed on for a year as an instructor in engineering...
Died. Fannie Ward, eightyish, the "perennial flapper" whose off-stage act of perpetual youth for more than half a century outshone her stage fame; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Born in St. Louis during the Andrew Johnson (or Grant) administration, Fannie made her stage debut in 1890, got off to a fast start in the role of Cupid by accidentally winging an arrow into the leading man's eye. For the next 25 years, little (she tried to keep her weight at 100 Ibs.), blonde, lively Fannie appeared in shows in New York and London, gave more sensational...
...MULLEN CO. WHICH FILED THE BANKRUPTCY PETITION AGAINST FRED WARD. THE MULLEN CO. DID NOT GO INTO RECEIVERSHIP AND IS COMPLETELY SOUND...
...Ward, as minority leader. Somehow, gradually, the young amateur won the surly respect of the old pro; before long, Connors was going down the line for almost everything the governor proposed. With his jowls joggling, Connors would run up & down the Senate floor, seizing Democrats by the lapel and growling: "Now vote for this. The little fellow over in the mansion wants...
...Shrike (by Joseph Kramm) is a scary blend of theatricalism and truth- a case history of an intelligent man who, having attempted suicide, is brought to the psychiatric ward of a city hospital. Completely sane, he comes up against maddening institutional methods of both procedure and inquiry. And beyond his medical inquisitors, there is the wife he has deserted for another woman. Outwardly all devotion to the man who scorned her, she is viciously determined he shall not walk out of the hospital into any arms but her own. Half-crazed by the hospital's methods of therapy...