Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Game of the week was at Columbus, Ohio, a town gone wild over football ever since early season results made it clear that Ohio State had a championship-calibre team. Last week unbeaten Ohio State's opponent was great Notre Dame, on its way back to the prestige and glory of days when its teams were coached by the late great Knute Rockne. This Notre Dame team had beaten Navy, Pitt, Wisconsin, Carnegie Tech, Kansas. Ohio State looked like the hardest jump in the country's hardest schedule. Day of the game, a ticket...
...this scene must have occurred to many a playwright before they were seized upon by Sidney Kingsley, who, though he won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago with his Men in White, is a comparative newcomer to Broadway. But it so happens that Mr. Kingsley was dealt four wild cards to go with his dramatic ace when Designer Norman Bel Geddes agreed to execute the setting for Dead...
...somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation in its full frightfulness. Accepted neither by blacks nor whites, an outcast of both races, Robert, mulatto son of Cora and Norwood runs wild in desperation, chokes his father to death, shoots himself in his mother's bedroom before the lynchers can reach...
...writing. Consequently, Green Hills of Africa, which contains such a statement, marks a new stage in Hemingway's development, throws more direct light on his personality than any book has yet published. Superficially the record of an African big-game hunting expedition, complete with sharp descriptions of wild and sunlit landscapes, child-like natives, killings exciting but not extremely hazardous, it is also packed with Hemingway's comments on literature politics, revolution and man's fate...
...suburban little romance, oddly out of key with its world-shaking social events, Things to Come is most interesting in its depiction of ruin Novelist Wells's imagination flourishes when he visualizes gas bombs falling, children being killed, Brooklyn Bridge destroyed, the Eiffel Tower collapsing, rats and wild dogs roaming the streets. But when he comes to imagine the productive days of the reconstruction he can only dream vaguely of semi-subterranean cities flooded with artificial light, peopled by graceful creatures in shapely garments growing agitated over the thought of a flight around the Moon. Inhabitants of the future...