Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been on the newspaper map ever since the kidnapping occurred. It was a base of police operations and, after the baby's corpse was found, the place where pettifogging Boat-Builder John H. Curtis of Norfolk was tried for fraud after he led Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase for his son. But even the citizens of Flemington were not prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied...
...Quixote (Nelson Film, Ltd., Vandor Film). The wild mountain land above the French Riviera and Paris and London studios more than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions...
...Rats & Vermin!" Dynamite at the Conference was Rumania's wild-eyed little Jan Motza, a leader of the Iron Guard which is Fascist in the loosest meaning of the term. "I come from a prison full of vermin and rats!" dramatically announced the Iron Guardsman. "Yes, my Fascist friends, from vermin and rats...
This past year with its wild desires...
...Wild with delight over what looked like their first big victory, Guild members jubilated that night at a first birthday party at the Washington Press Club. But the fun was cut short by a bulletin: Donald Richberg, "Assistant President," had gone to the defense of Publisher Hearst, had asked the Labor Board to reopen the case. Again Chairman Biddle held court, heard what amounted to a rebuke to himself by Mr. Richberg and NRA Counsel Blackwell Smith on "respect, co-operation and support" of NRA Codes. Prime point: The order establishing the Labor Board said that it "may decline...