Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City an hour later she was given a wild Latin reception by Government officials, some 20,000 shouting Mexicans and her ubiquitous husband George Palmer Putnam. More impressed by her reception than by her performance, Mrs. Putnam told newsmen: "From a pilot's standpoint the record was not very satisfactory...
Tainted by Princeton's formal protest of the umpires' decision on a ground rule, the Varsity gained a 6-4 victory over the Tigers Saturday at Soldiers Field. This action, unprecedented in the history of the Eastern intercollegiate Baseball League, was occasioned by the officials' ruling that Adzigian's wild throw in the eighth had gone into the crowd, and that the two Princeton men who had scored were allowed only two bases...
Princeton's protest was apparently based on the sixth inning decision that catcher Reichel's wild attempt to catch Dick Maguire off first allowed the three Crimson runners to score, while the verdiot was rendered after Coach Fred Mitchell's definition of the ground rule to the officials, and the Tigers' two runs from the overthrow were disallowed. Princeton played the balance of the game under protest. The league officials will return their report within ten days, after the protest and Harvard's plea have been filed...
...Hearst papers have their way from now on the country is in for a long era of economic stability. Advocates of paying large veterans' bonuses with printing-press money and supporters of high-powered sales taxes will look elsewhere for aid in the future. Randolph Hearst has sowed his wild oats and is now definitely on the bandwagon of liberalism and laissez-faire democracy...
...students who are bound to be disappointed will ring loud and unmistakable throughout the Yard. Although the prospect of becoming one of the "forgotten men" of Little and Claverly will naturally alarm rejected applicants, they will do well to make an effort to understand the conditions before racing indignantly wild-eyed to a group of unfortunate men who would like nothing better than to make every student of Harvard College a member of the House Plan...