Word: wards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrest of Felix Canigianes assumed national proportions yesterday when H. L. Mencken, the editor of the American Mercury, forced J. Frank Chase, secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, to secure his arrest. Mencken sold Chase a copy of the April number of the Mercury at the corner of Park and Tremont Streets at 2 o'clock...
...Charles M. Schwab was a stage driver in his youth and is proud of it. Mr. Charles M. Ward is a nephew of Mr. Schwab. Last week Mr. Ward asked the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, at Paris, whether he would like to drive a racing automobile at the opening, next May, of the Atlantic City Speedway, which has allegedly been financed by steel-magnate Schwab...
General Artemas Ward was a man of parts. Not only was he nominally in command of the Massachusetts troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but he was also prominent in the political life, first of the Commonwealth, and finally, toward the latter part of his life, of the nation...
Shortly after his graduation from the University, Artemas Ward was made a member of the Assembly and Executive Council for Worcester County. During the following years, he took part in the wars against the French and Indians, and finally on April 22, 1775, two days after the beginning of the siege of Boston was made Captain-General. A month later he was raised to the position of General and Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts troops. In this capacity he commanded at Bunker Hill, although he himself stayed in Cambridge at the time and detailed the leading of the troops...
...would, indeed, be a pleasure for those who have loved the humor of a later Artemas Ward, to be able to think of him as a descendant of the worthy old general. Yet this is unfortunately not the case, for the name of the humorist was Charles Farer Browne, who chose as his nomme do plume. "Artemas Ward", for reasons known only to himself...