Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every school child knows the prowess of George Washington, but few grown men know what a fortunate accident he was. The Continental Congress chose him to head our Armies only as a matter of politics. His military record was unknown. John Hancock and Artemus Ward wanted to command but, to appease the South, George Washington, the "quiet husband of the richest woman in America," was chosen, regardless of qualifications, to lead our Armies. Similarly, LaFayette was made a Major General for his zeal, his illustrious family, his connections...
Nearby, under another maple, stood another chestnut stallion, Wise Counsellor, property of John S. Ward of Louisville, Ky., and Frederick Burton of Chicago...
Thereupon, Father and Uncle George arrange a supper party with the latter lady, hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal...
...spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan) to the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, and thus be come successor to Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Newell Dwight Hillis (TIME, Apr. 21). Said Dr. Fosdick by telegram: ". . . WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT UNTIL OFFICIALLY APPROACHED BY AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERY...
Last week the proposal was put for ward that the farmers of the country take over the combined businesses of five of the largest grain elevator companies of the Middle West (TIME, July 28). The Farm Bureau Federation approved it, and the first steps leading to carrying out the proposal were put into effect. This means that the Armour Grain Co., the Rosenbaum Grain Corp., J. C. Shaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros, and the Davis-Noland-Merrill Co. have surrendered their prop erties to the giant $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co. The public is being asked to subscribe...