Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hamstring the Donkey instead. The nation is still fairly placid in spite of the aimless and futile experimentation it has undergone. But if that experimentation is to be revived, with no emendation and no attempt to contract its illegality, the guinea pig has every right to become a snorting wild boar...
...exaggerating when I say I know him better than any other person alive. In 1915 we were on an eight-months' trip to climb Mt. Everest. Permission being refused by the British, we went to the jungles of Borneo to do anthropological work on the so-called wild man of Borneo. During these eight months, we were together practically every minute of the time-night and day. Our principal topic of conversation was the Polar Controversy. I spent considerable time with him in the oil fields of Wyoming and Texas, and when he is in Chicago...
There citizens read newspaper extras announcing Lea's parole, ran wild, yowled: "Praise the Lord! Luke's out! Glory, Hallelujah!" At Lebanon, 40 miles out side Nashville, a crowd accompanied by an American Legion band gathered to greet Colonel Lea, who, as an A. E. F. artilleryman, tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice...
...sales manager in 1934, from Gene Johnson who had spent half a dozen years coaching minor college and commercial teams in the Midwest. He guaranteed a winning combination. Last week, Coach Johnson gave his recipe for their success: "We like to turn the game into a wild, helter-skelter, all-over-the-court scuffle . . . because we play bad basketball better than the other fellow...
Policies cooked up by the malcontents of New York University or the wild women of Sarah Lawrence can come to Harvard only in the baggage of a small minority whose viewpoint is definitely unrepresentative as far as this university is concerned. The stupidity of the national organization, which is trying to be all things to all men, is shown in the card sent to members of the Harvard group. It presented four issues, ranging from the moderate to the hysterical, and then declared that belief in "one or all the issues" would be the qualification for membership. Such a lack...