Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy recollection, a ward the cause of the Republic...
...Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1872 by James Lenox. It cares for thousands "without regard for race, creed or color." Over 65% of its ward service is given free. When Lord Lister, about 50 years ago, brought forward his theory of antiseptic treatment in operations, the Presbyterian was among the first hospitals to adopt it, as it was also among the first to introduce medical social service and visiting nurse work. Its present abode, antiquated and inadequate, was erected in 1892. Now it will launch a drive?the first public appeal it has ever made?to complete the building fund...
...Herbert Ward was a wanderer in the heart of the Congo jungles. As he went, he collected things-anything that reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...
...Ward's inruption into the world of sculpture was spectacular. Its result is a series of bronzes-fierce, elemental figures, full of the mystery and terror and power of the jungle. A warrior, armed and tense, snarling; a chieftain, peering at one from under lowering brow; a nude woman and two children fleeing some grim jungle peril; a sorcerer dancing a mad dance...
...Ward's whole collection, bronzes included, has come into the possession of the Smithsonian Institution and may be seen at the National Museum, Washington. If one cannot visit them there, an interesting appreciation of his work by W. H. Holmes, illustrated by photographs, appeared in the September issue of Art and Archaeology...