Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aboard the U. S. S. Houston at Balboa, C. Z.) two stories that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...female grizzly bear taken last month from Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear holed up in a cool corner. Driven out by a machine...
...last of her species. During the War many a strong girl got a man's job toting letters from door to door. At least one who still functions is Katie E. Philpot, 44, of Williamston, N. C. Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post...
...Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered work relief...
...personal touch was so vital in Philip Morris' start, there were understandable qualms when the team of Chalkley and Lyon succeeded them. But affable Salesman Lyon soon rivaled his predecessors in cajoling dealers and salesmen ("My name is Lyon but I'm no wild animal. . . ."), and President Chalkley spurred the whole company to fresh endeavor by encouraging initiative rather than following able Mac McKitterick's policy of being a one-man arbiter of everything. He extended the bonus system to the whole company. As the only major executive in the country with leaf-buying, manufacturing and selling...