Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byrns is not the man his fierce eyebrows make him out to be. Senator Borah, whose eyebrows are equally bushy, licks his thumb and smooths them down to polite dimensions. Speaker Byrns lets his grow wild and in so doing they belie him. For 40 years, ever since as a country boy he talked his way into the State legislature at Nashville, he has put a friendly arm around the shoulders of his constituents and told them they "ought to be comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville...
...coming months would do well to avail themselves of two dollars and fifty cents' worth of as exciting and diverting relaxation as they are likely to find in contemporary literature. "Riding the Mustang Trail," the narrative of a four-hundred-mile "trail drive" of a large herd of wild mustangs from the Mescalero country of New Mexico to a shipping point in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, is a saga proving beyond all doubt that there still is a West, in the realest sense of the term, that it is still full of pitfalls, even to its most hardened inhabitants, and that...
...actual experience for the reader, and when the last page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes which the author has left indelibly on one's memory. There is nothing sensational or cheap in Mr. Blake's story; he doesn't have to resuscitate bands of wild Indians or buffalo to make his reader's spine tingle with excitement...
...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
...Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered...