Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bush-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham (Republican) of Massachusetts believes that the best way to get re-elected to Congress is to leave the voters alone, go hunting wild animals in Africa, return only in time to vote for himself. This system has served him well for twelve consecutive terms. Last week he announced he would employ it this year as usual...
...said the 22-year-old son of a Jersey stone cutter next day as he was besieged by newshawks, radio scouts and theatrical agents. Taking his fishing rod, he went off for the day with the chief of police of his home town while Cincinnati townsfolk went wild. For the first time since 1919 there was talk of a National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime...
...fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once been in the Dodgers training camp but they had let him go to Scranton. It was Larry MacPhail who had the foresight to buy him from Nashville in the summer of 1936 (for $17,500 cash and one player) after the wild young lefthander had been turned down by the Yankees, Red Sox and Giants...
...Netherlands. In Belgium, which was hardest hit, damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Seismological instruments in Brussels were broken by the violence of the temblor. In Ghent, one wall of the Palais de Justice was badly cracked, and a pedestrian was killed by a streetcar running wild. At Ostend, a British police band gallantly marched on, playing while the street heaved...
...herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher in the Tonto Basin was hanged for killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed the law would hold them guilty if there was any violence, they went unarmed, ate dirt...