Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discarded by magicians because of its crudeness and as explained by TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration" I will gladly duplicate the trick in my own parlor using a broom instead of a stick and without flowing robes, wild eyes etc. and before any committee TIME wishes to choose. WILLIAM H. MOSELEY...
...Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt." At 12:42 a.m., two minutes after the roll call of states ended, Franklin Roosevelt was nominated by acclamation, without a ballot. The delegates staggered to their feet, went wild for the last time...
These savage herders and fighters last week roused their sheiks in British-mandated Transjordania to urge a single wild cavalry sweep into Palestine to massacre Jews and Britons. Mild Emir Abdullah Ibn Hussein, who holds his throne by the favor of Britain, tried to soothe his sheiks while the Emir's son, Crown Prince Talal, whipped them up to a fighting frenzy...
...romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty...
Riding for Texas is Colonel Edward M. House's reminiscences of his old friend William Jesse McDonald, captain of Company B of the Texas Rangers. As put down by Tyler Mason, Riding for Texas reads like a parody of all Wild West tales. It begins with a scene in which the Governor tells Bill Jesse: "By gatlings, we're going to make a new State out of Texas. You're built for the job. A born manhunter, that's what you are. . . . You have a scent like a bloodhound, and courage to match...