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Word: wilde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free concert on the Mall in New York, they are cosmopolitan. They bring together the whole community in an endeavor to grasp some of the fleeting beauty of the spring tide. There are no speculators hawking tickets on the fifty, for there are no seats. There is no wild cheering, no drunken shouting, only the bursting applause rings out under the trees to punctuate the intermission. What emotions rise in the hearts of the people are unexpressed, but taken away into the night to add to their sense of beauty and joy in life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THY JUBILEE THRONG | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago a month ago Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World was let loose with charging horses, yippiding cowboys, lassos thrown to rope in the general public. In Washington last week McCoy's broncos seemed all too sadly busted. First, F. Stewart Stranahan of Providence, R. L, with a $17,500 claim against the show, threw it into receivership. Then, padding at Stranahan's heels, a delegation of McCoy's Sioux Redmen visited Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, threatened a sitdown strike against Tim McCoy unless he: 1) came through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Last Roundup | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sky Pilot | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Double play: Liverance to Keyes. Struck out: by Lovett 1, by Houghton 1. Wild pitches: Lovett 1, Houghton 1. First base on balls: off Lovett 3, off Houghton 1. Left on bases: Harvard 12, Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT ERRORS CAUSE YARDLING 5-1 DEFEAT | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...dancing by the torrid platinum blondes, and talks by Joe Cashman of the Boston American who spoke about the future of the Red Sox and the Bees, contrasted by Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck who did not charm the audience by relating his adventures with snakes and other wild beasts in the jungles he has conquered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sally Rand Asks for Harvard Support Of Labor Unions and Democracy at '41 Smoker; Wants 'Intellectual Frontier' | 5/6/1938 | See Source »

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