Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...callow youth is scarcely a judge in such matters, but to the Moviegoer the young Dionnes look like handsome lassies. Your intellectual friends may excoriate with supercilious scorn the softheaded sentimentality of a public that will go wild over the product of an extraordinary accouchement. But have another look at the babes before you snoor. Besides the appeal of their tiny smiles, there is an unquestionable charm in their fivences...
...Wild, veteran Chicago news hawk and Harvard publicity director, genial panhandler of College news, liaison officer between official Harvard and the world, chief shock-troop denyer of all University rumors, was tendered a reception yesterday in honor of the anniversary of the appointment to his post here. Gifts were tendered by appreciative Boston reporters, including a rubber stamp worded, "The University has no statement to make regarding Mr. Hanfstaengl's offer...
Generally speaking, the hordes of men pouring into the wild country were interested in two things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...
...rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we are setting up today...
...Secretary John, 42-got into the fox-raising business in 1909. They followed the trail of a fox & pups to the foxhole. They built a tent over the hole, stood guard till the young foxes came out (see cut, p. 72). Now the Fromms have 2,000 foxes running wild on their ranch near Wausau, another 4,000 in breeding Dens on a ranch near Milwaukee. The 6,000 foxes are valued at about $1,500,000. Since 1917, the Fromms have sold $16,500,000 worth of pelts, with 1935 sales of $819,000, about...