Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes a highly successful early marriage and edges into her comfortable niche in society, promising to blossom into a typically good mother and matron. Dark, mystic, ever dissatisfied Margaret ends her wild search for freedom and beauty as the mistress of a man who refuses to give up his wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist and completes the exodus from the Ferguson home. Their children gone and Fred's life work...
Some days past there appeared on the local scene the "Harvard Man's Guide Book," a publication dedicated to the worthy purpose of the better enjoyment of bright college years and the more efficient sowing of wild oats. In this monumental work, greeted by a thunderous silence, which runs the gamut of Harvard activities from A to B, the omission of a chapter on false teeth or orthodontia, is a heavy loss...
...youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King as he began to fire. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild but the first had done their work. Minister Barthou clutched at his arm. King Alexander jerked, stiffened, then crumpled and slid to the floor of the car. Blood streamed from his mouth, oozed through his chest...
...Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 14--A posse sped late today into the wild area lying about nine miles southeast of Louisville after a milkman saw Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, kidnaped society woman, held prisoner in the rear seat of an automobile...