Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of all flyers to cross the Andes. -Not, however, Sergt. A. G. Elliott, who started from England with Pilot Gobham but died when a Bedouin rifleman, strolling on the bank of the Euphrates River, took a potshot "for sport" at the strange thing passing overhead. Not Sergeant Ward, either, who volunteered for Elliott's place and flew with Cobham from Arabia to Australia. It was one Captel, a mechanic who substituted for Ward in Australia for the flight home...
...square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy and circular priesthood. The narrator is a square professor who, after a visit to the unbelievably benighted residents of one-dimensional Lineland, is introduced to Spaceland by a Sphere. With a great effort, he masters the conception of a Figure moving "up-ward, not northward" out of its plane. Ironically, he cannot persuade the Sphere that perhaps there are yet other dimensions, to be entered by solids by some motion unfamiliar to them...
...class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene an inevitable scene in Grant Mitchell's procrustean and as such reappearing on the stage to explain how it all happened, at the same time spraying the footlights with loosened teeth...
Professor William Lyon Phelps, nationally beloved teacher at Yale University: "I commented last week in Scribner's on the fact that three recent novels have manicure girls as their heroines (Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis, Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Jones in Paris by Ward Muir). Of manicuring I wrote...
...Ferdinand Clet, 70, lay in a hospital ward at Grenoble, France, last week, groaned, snored...