Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events. Suddenly the tariffs and quotas of France were slashed, and this was followed even more unexpectedly by Benito Mussolini with similar action on behalf of Italy (see p. 24). Overnight on the international scene new life was breathed into the principle of Free Trade, and there was a wild scramble by His Majesty's Government to readjust their ideas and Mr. Chamberlain's. To Geneva this week hurried the Chancellor's most distinguished subordinate, Mr. William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison. In the only speech to the current League Assembly which had any real importance, Mr. Morrison virtually...
...While Queen Mary waited sadly in Buckingham Palace for the ceremony marking her departure to live in Marlborough House last week, the King and Mrs. Simpson merrily boarded a special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster...
...Brandon is the wild daughter of a Virginia mountaineer. One of her earliest memories is of ringing a bell to warn her father at the still that the sheriff was coming for him. A tall, slender, dark-eyed girl, Kit runs away from home at 15, after her father reveals an unpaternal interest in her. She gets a job in a textile mill, learns fast. Kit is befriended by a hard, homely girl, feels humiliated by being called a "lint head" by the townspeople, is loved by a boy dying of tuberculosis. It is at this period of her life...
...rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied books calculated to deepen their "modesty of mien and deportment." Learning that men were apt to be turned into "wild beasts" if such modesty was departed from, Eleanor could only picture a raging beast in terms of a dog she had once seen go mad, was consequently very modest lest she send the baker's boy into a similar convulsion...
...interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant homes in wild regions. As long as funds were regularly provided for their upkeep they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days...