Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
...Caldwell Record of Lenoir, N. C., for what Country Home considered "the grandest piece of individual thinking and writing we have come upon for years": "Last night I thought I heard a pack of foxhounds running, but as the sound came nearer I realized it was a flock of wild geese flying out of the north...
...young matrons whom a Japanese would recognize by name are Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3rd and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz. Last week Japanese politely welcomed announcements that both are with child. But wild was Japanese joy when the Imperial Household Ministry issued a proclamation that Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be brought to bed next November for the sixth time...
First, the Vincey expedition meets a wild British fur trader living in a snow hut with his lovely daughter Tanya (Helen Mack). Next they find old John Vincey's body sealed in a glacier, like a lamb chop in aspic. Hacking at the glacier the fur trader starts an avalanche. The avalanche opens up the entrance to an underground kingdom where Leo, his associate and Tanya are assaulted by cannibals, lugged off in time's nick to a porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been...
Slowly through the 549 pages of The Furys James Hanley reveals his characters, lets their actions speak for them, presents accelerating events through the eyes of one after another, introduces a mass of realistic detail. The first of three novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley...