Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evolution for John Doe-Henshaw Ward-Bobbs Merrill...
...against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller and Lull* of the Yale University Faculty all of whom checked his manuscript before it was accepted by the publishers...
Taking his vast subject briskly but firmly in hand, Mr. Ward describes the theory, presents the evidence, tells the history of the idea. It takes him 336 pages to put it all down thoroughly, but the style is so crisp and lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity...
...With his departure Washington-ward definitely in sight, the President for the first time opened the doors of White Court to the public and greeted callers. Delegations and individuals poured in by motor. By train, by street car and by the aid of his pedal extremities came Robert J. Taylor, 80-year-old bewhiskered Negro elevator operator, who has carried 15 Governors of Massachusetts up and down the Boston State House. The President, who was one of the Governors whom Mr. Taylor had levitated, shook his hand in amiable recognition...
...will take more than The Enchanted April to make it a good season. The Sea Woman. The loudest melodrama in some months came in under this title and unwrapped a good deal of sound excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from a fisherman along the coast, learned more completely than she expected as we learn promptly in the first act. To shield her fisherman she accuses a Government engineer and the latter gets a bullet...