Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Karl Barth, called the saviour of German Protestantism and greatest religious thinker of the century, will be the subject of two lectures by John D. Wild, assistant professor of Philosophy, in St. Paul's Cathedral at 12.10 o'clock today and Thursday, December...
...premiere of the opera company a full symphony orchestra attempts to render Il Trovatore while the brothers run mad, trying to break up the performance so as to get the lead for Ricardo, climbing in the flies of the opera house and swinging from rope to rope so that wild pieces of scenery appear behind the singers. As a climax Groucho substitutes plebeian music on the racks, causing the orchestra at a turn of the score-page to swing from Trovatore into Take Me Out to the Ball Game while Groucho enters down the aisle, selling popcorn and peanuts...
...Serbian police, she was beaten, saved from worse tortures only because the commander wanted her for himself. Released by the commander's son, she joined Macedonian raiders who operated over the Bulgarian border, found herself with Todor Alexandrov, most famed and mysterious of Macedonian terrorists. During a wild, cross-country flight, in a lull between battles, he became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life...
...drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded his reunion with his fat, tactless mother who had taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision...
...scholastic harness. Tonight he will sleep in his four poster and dream sweet dreams and maybe a nightmare or two--there is always the game. And tomorrow he will awake and, still with mixed thoughts of Manhattan, be off to see some "Moving Pictures of African Wild Life." The Vagabond feels this will be a relief after his escapade to the City...