Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give Count and Countess Ciano the most superlative of welcomes. They slept most of the night in their private car in Vienna Station, then slid comfortably off to be greeted at Hungary's border by deafening peasant cheers, repeated at every station. Alighting at Budapest amid such a wild ovation as only emotional Hungarians can outpour, Countess Ciano kissed a small Budapest lass with Latin warmth and cried, "This kiss means Italy's love for all Hungarian girls...
...wildest, fastest, most astonishing Yale-Princeton football game on record. Sandbach's field goal and White's two touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass by Frank to Captain Larry Kelley. Early in the fourth period, Princeton got to Yale's 3-yd. line. Yale held, and its star punter, Dave Colwell, who was operated on for appendicitis a month ago, hurried into...
First picture in the new LIFE symbolically showed an obstetrician holding by the heels a just-born baby whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones...
...find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose, Wis., and John H. Nicholson, 75, now field secretary for the Gideons...
Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...