Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Villanova aggregation has found the sailing pretty rough so far this spring, losing well over half of its contests; but its lineup has seven veterans including pitcher Hensil who played on the 1928 nine which trounced Harvard by a decisive 8 to 0 score. The left-handed Wildcat hurler let the last year's Crimson outfit down with six hits and fanned nine, facts which tend to show that today's contest may yet be a ball game worth seeing...
Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...
Denver, ridden by a newspaper war between Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils with a morning and evening Post and the Scripps-Howard syndicate with a morning and evening News (TIME, Feb. 14), continued in its crazy aspect of wildcat frontier town. Last week the Post's frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world...
...superintended the New York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...
...Government at home makes their Debating Unions of great importance. But over here who cares? Those who are thinking of going into politics never talk about it; because of certain happenings of the past few years it is almost as if one should announce his intention of becoming a wildcat oilstock salesman...