Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William G. Land '28, registrar of the Tercentenary Conference, George F. Lombard '33, in charge of radio, Albert J. Lynd '32, in charge of the Tercentenary Gazette and printing. Charles F. McNeil '27, in charge of lodging and catering, Walcott D. Street '27, first editor of the Gazette, Arthur Wild '25, in charge of publicity. John B. Jackson '32, and Barrett Wendell, Jr '36 on the office staff fice staff...
...Midsummer Night Madness he wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...
...flying the Stars & Stripes at her mainmast and had an enormous U. S. flag spread flat on top of her well-deck awning. All six bombs missed their mark. The Kane fired back at the monoplane nine rounds from her anti-aircraft gun. All nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side of the Spanish civil...
...wild guess at what the starting lineup will be in October when Amherst Journeys down to the Stadium for the first time in years, a guess unsubstantiated by much evidence since practice is still two weeks away, would make the lineup as follows: Guards...
...breed up to their oldtime numbers. Using reports from its field agents as evidence, the Survey had concluded that while U. S. breeding areas were affected, Drought had not touched the ducks in their vast northern Canadian nesting grounds this year. It would therefore be safe for U. S. wild-fowlers to shoot into this year's migration under rigid restrictions similar to those imposed last year. Again there may be no baiting, no live decoys, no sink boxes or batteries, no guns larger than 10-gauge, or carrying more than three shells. But there will still be duckshooting...