Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uninitiated had supposed. In THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, we have the reminiscences of a man who has lived in a small town in up-state New York, close to the Canadian border. Small though the town is, the area which must be covered by a doctor is vast and wild. His patients range from Indians and French-Canadians, to small farmers and village folk, and his duties from major operations to treating contagious illnesses...
...they would go. Sobbing, blubbering, thousands of Viennese alternately laughed, cried, cheered and were all broken up outside the Imperial Hotel as they clamored for Adolf Hitler. Said a Prussian officer of the Guard, surveying the Viennese through his icy monocle: "Such transports! Berlin itself has never gone as wild as this. Munich perhaps, ja Munich...
...there was slightly less rain than usual in the rainy season-what, for Equatorial Africa, amounted to a drought. Cocoa went up again. The natives, reflecting on the simplicity of economics, easily perceived that the less cocoa went to market, the higher went its price. For one wild day last year the spot price on the New York Cocoa Exchange was 13? a pound...
...like steam escaping from a safety valve. "What," asked perplexed Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. De Voto's real grievance? This indignation at other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that he had outgrown his controversial gift, suggested it was time for him to quit, that he might now write "a superb work...
...face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...