Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal apparently felt that public opinion had gone hog-wild in sympathy for a youth who most certainly ought to hang...
Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains...
Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants. Complexion, previous skin diseases or a predisposition to shingles or other allergens apparently have nothing to do with the sensitivity to adhesive plaster found in one out of every hundred normal men, women & children...
...fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable police chief (Paul Porcasi), a solemn professor, and the archeologist's half-wild...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...