Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...
...blood-smeared and near exhaustion. Then Pilot Mulqueeny realized: "It was either the three of us or just one. I left the controls and tried to pull Koenecke down. . . . Finally I grabbed the fire extinguisher. I walloped him over the head with it." A dozen times, Mulqueeny bashed the wild man, splashing blood and extinguishing fluid all over the cabin walls. At last Koenecke slumped into a heap. Just in time. Pilot Mulqueeny jumped back to his controls, managed to land the plane on a dark racecourse at New Toronto. When the police arrived, they found Koenecke practically naked, frightfully...
...with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...
...honest, emotional, impulsive, self-centered girl, "not much to look at," Mabel Ganson enjoyed life in Buffalo, drove her unloved and unloving father to bed when she bobbed her hair long before bobbing was the style. She had a wild but innocent relationship with Seward Cary, husband of one of her friends who taught her to ride, took her on a coaching party through the Berkshires. One night, at a country inn while other members of the party were asleep, Cary "chased me all over the outside of the building; over roofs and down fire escapes, along mad, narrow ledges...
...wild call and a clear call...