Word: willards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last time he had been in Washington was on Mar. 4 when "J. G. Sargent, Ludlow, Vt." registered at the Willard. He had come down on the train with Colonel John Coolidge and his party; and the story is that he had treated the whole party to railroad and Pullman tickets. Although he dined at the White House as the guest of the President, he is said to have preferred to have his meals in the basement of the White House with the Secret Service men with whom he had made friends the summer before at Plymouth. He kept...
...hockey team will be chosen at a meeting of the squad this when the team picture is made at Norman's studio. The men who will be eligible for the captaincy are Thayer Cammings '26, W. P. Ellison '27, C. S. Gross '27, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, Willard Howard '27, N. S. Howe '26, J. L. Newell '26, L. O. Pratt '26, R. S. Scott '27, and Isadore Zarakor...
...unusually large number of men are eligible for the captaincy. Ten letter men of this season and last will return next year. They are Thayer Cumings '26, W. P. Ellison '27, C. S. Gross '27, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, Willard Howard '27, N. S. Howe '26, J. L .Newell '26, L. O.Pratt '26, R. S. Scott '27, and Isidor Zarakov...
...Willard Metcalf, 66, was born in Lowell, Mass., apprenticed when 17 to a wood-engraver, later to one George L. Brown, landscape artist of South Boston, in whose service he got up at six o'clock, walked ten miles to work, swept out the studio, built the fire. Saving his pennies, he got together enough to go to Paris where, it is said, he lived on "three cents a day" studying under Boulanger and Lefebvre. Occasionally he sold a picture. In 1888, one of his paintings was hung in the Salon. Tired of his poverty, he left Paris, became...
...Died. Willard L. Metcalf, 66, artist; in Manhattan, of heart disease...