Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nigger Hell." Among the first settlers on Manhattan Island were eleven blacks, who arrived with the Dutch in 1626. The first New York City race riot occurred under the English in 1712, when a wild rumor that slaves were plotting to massacre the whites condemned 21 Negroes to death. In 1741 a similar tale circulated by a white servant girl caused the colonists to burn 14 Negroes "alive with a slow fire until dead and consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft...
...whom intermarried with Negroes, now number nearly 600. Routed by whites from every desirable acre, they are now scattered deep in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt...
...that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like this until the climax at the race track. Gallant Godfrey, returned to his owner, runs against Toledo's horse and makes everybody happy by losing...
Among the patronesses are: Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock, Mrs. Merle Fainsed, Mrs. Walter E. Houghton, Mrs. Francis W. MacVeagh, Mrs. Donald H. McLaughlin, Mrs. Perry Miller, Mrs. Theodore Merrison, Mrs. John D. Wild, and Mrs. Benjamin F. Wright...
High spots in the performance were the sterling blunderbuss-shooting of Mr. Murdock and the valiant actions of Mr. Jackson, whose mute eloquence brought the audience to its feet in wild acclaim...