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Word: wards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bowery, the Bowery, we won't go there any more," etc. But you can't keep the cinema away. This is about a beggar with a home in the country and a lovely ward who does not know how he makes his expenses. Percy Marmont gives an especially good performance, the detail is excellent, the entertainment fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised the money. The assembly marched to the uptown church where, after a prayer by a Baptist minister, a Scripture reading by a rabbi, a onetime U.S. District Attorney (Colonel William Hay ward) talked about money. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Temple | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...past, is now a term synonymous with integrity, ability and fair dealing, redundantly stated one of National Association of Real Estate Boards at a convention in Detroit. Miss Lulu McKibbin presented the association with an olive wood gavel made at a carpenter shop in Nazareth by a boy ward from the U. S.; the game cock brought by the Texas delegation crowed lustily; the San Francisco boys' glee club sang; Winter Haven representatives gave away oranges; six exquisite Negroes with the Tampa stampers sang songs of the southland; girls were hired for the lot sellers to dance with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Carp | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Moses | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

John Fonda Ward Whitbeck '27 of Bronxville, N. Y., was elected captain of the 1926 University tennis team yesterday. Whitbeck has played number two on the University team during the greater part of this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITBECK TO LEAD 1926 UNIVERSITY TENNIS TEAM | 6/6/1925 | See Source »

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