Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slight, handsome Dave Merwin, 35, was something of a wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...
...North American such a wild terrain does not seem economically worth fighting for. Perhaps it has oil. Perhaps Bolivia, cut off from the Pacific by Chile 52 years ago, needs an outlet across the northern Chaco to the navigable Paraguay River. However, landlocked Bolivia already has far better outlets: by railroad across Chile to the coast; by railroad to the navigable reaches of the Amazon in Brazil. The Gran Chaco War was wholly a peoples' war, begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes...
...American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...
...most notable feature of this cockeyed production is that its skits and blackouts represent a definite progression in revue humor from the bedroom to the bathroom, a metamorphosis illustrated nowhere better than in the Wild West poker game which revolves around a bottle of Pluto Water. Unchanged and unchanging, however, are the Carroll girls. As pretty and as hussy as ever, they bring their erotism a bit closer to the bald-headed row this year by pulling off their garters, tossing them to nearby spectators...
...steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common stock instead of in cash from the proceeds of bond issues as did other film concerns in the wild scramble for their own screens. Unwisely, however, Paramount agreed to buy back that stock within two years, at an average price of $80 per share. Of course, the company hoped that its shares would rise above that figure in the open market. Paramount shares never hit $80 on the New York...