Word: warded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rooms of the Women's Association at Philadelphia is a fine cast of a Harvard student, the work of Miss Genevieve Ward...
...following, from the New York Independent, puts Oscar in his true light : "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe really seems very naive in her expression that as `the representatives of tender hope and divine compassion,' women can properly associate with and patronize Oscar Wilde. 'Tender hope and divine compassion' are not for rakes. Mrs. Howe may properly invite the repentant, but not the unrepentant Magdalen or roue to her house. For our part, we acknowledge a shiver when we hear a presumably pure woman speak familiarly the name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company...
...noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin...
Councilman S. W. McDaniel, of Ward 1, graduated from the law school...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...