Word: willards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...
Gang War. Whatever may be Willard Mack's inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king...
...camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping ice drama of the future, to be produced by Paramount Pictures. Newsgatherer Russell Owen will have assembled material for a hundred exclusive stories in the New York Times...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
...Another railroader, famed President Daniel Willard of the B. & O., makes Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) his hobby (TIME...