Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounded Northern soldier, Charles Pander Willard was detailed to tend the lighthouse on Loggerhead Island of the Dry Tortugas reef...
These inmates became friends, as the soldier, Willard, my grandfather, made necessary visits to the prison for his supplies. They exchanged corals for walking sticks, violin bows for turtle shells. Your tintype of Dr. Mudd shows him whittling another cane of hard wood, one of which is in my collection. My grandfather's painting of his lighthouse home, and the little sailboat Jenney of Loggerhead is on my wall before...
...decide to have dinner at the Willard in the crystal room. Here you are really in the halls of history. Gone is the romance and the glory and the prominent personages. You journey through Peacock Alley, pass women from the West who think they are in style; and take a seat in the middle of the Alley. Your interest is aroused by three old codgers (probably ex-Congressmen) talking very loudly--perhaps all are a bit deal--on an adjacent couch. You hear them, as I have sigh and reminisce of the days of Ariemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley...
Invitations to attend the function have been sent to former members of the staff living in the vicinity, including Willard P. Gerrsh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and the first observer; and H. Helm Clayton, who was in immediate charge of the observational work from 1886 to 1908. It is expected that there will be present a representative of the United States Weather Bureau, and some members of the Board of Overseers committee to visit the observatory...
...Manhattan, a magistrate found Francis McLeod, 27, unemployed barge captain, guilty of smashing his four-month-old daughter in the face after a longshoreman had beaten him in a brawl. In Ashland, Ky., Willard Slusher, 27, was indicted for murder for having quieted his three-month-old daughter with a fatal slap across the head...