Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather unfortunate voice. The same difficulty hampered Richard Hamlen, Jr. (the pirate king) although not so much. Hamlen cut a fine figure of a pirate, but octaves cannot be pasted to a voice as easily as the moustache was stuck on his upper lip. Nancy Adam was a passable ward, but Anna Jeffrey was somewhat jittery...
John Bryan Ward-Perkins, Director of the British School in Rome, will be the first Jackson lecturer. He will deliver two illustrated lectures on "Etruria and Rome" at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12, in the Semitic Museum...
...Barbara Ward will open a two-program television series, sponsored by the International Development Society, with a talk on "The Challenge of the Developing World" tonight at 9 p.m. Miss Ward is the British expert on economic development and is currently visiting lecturer in Government...
Fast-moving Montgomery Ward still has some laps to travel before catching its main rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Reported Sears last week: 1956 sales totaled $3,555,684,148, for a jump of 7.5% in the year, and earnings were $164,816,293. Significantly, noted Sears, "increased competition in our field" lowered after-tax net to 4.6% of sales...
...Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig...