Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among them gave thought to the tragic extermination of the wild life which formed the principal article of food of the pioneers...
...Premier. He had lost a good one in able, young Premier Paul van Zeeland when the Belgian elections made the Socialists, instead of van Zeeland's Catholics, the Chamber of Deputies' biggest party. Van Zeeland's men had lost many seats to the Rexists, wild, new, Catholic-Fascist party of young Léon Degrelle. When van Zeeland resigned, he precipitated a partisan brawl among the National Union parties (Catholics, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists) who had supported his effective program of devaluation and controlled inflation...
Died, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 62, famed British poet, critic, novelist, militant Roman Catholic controversialist; of heart disease; at "Top Meadow" at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Proud of his romantic poetry (The Wild Knight, The Ballad of the White Horse), he was best known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned...
...book abounds in tall tales, wreaths of reminiscence, diverting digressions. Of Annie Oakley, famed deadshot of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he records that she was extremely stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets...
...book. In spare moments from his sheepherding, he spun them the yarn of his adventures. When Jimmy came to Patagonia, in 1892, it had been an even wilder land. In Tierra del Fuego, where he went first as a herder, the Indians were being hunted and killed like wild animals. Naked Indian women were kept tethered outside the herders' tents until their pregnancy made them a nuisance. There was little law but the gauchos' own. Jimmy liked the life-a man's life...