Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a wild scramble in front of the net at the end of the second frame, Joe Patrick jabbed the other Harvard score into the net. Previously Queens had scored twice, and the period ended with the Canadians out in front...
...year Franklin Roosevelt retired last week to the inside pages of the nation's press. If the President was startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting...
...Mexico, speculated on what would happen if Mexican Fascists started something. Nobody paid much attention to these surmises until U. S. Representative Jerry J. O'Connell of Montana observed to reporters in Los Angeles three weeks ago that "Mexico will undergo a Fascist revolt in 60 days." Wild rumors started flying up & down the Mexican-U. S. line, and Texans contracted a fine case of border jitters. Soon in the Mexican expatriate hangouts in Laredo, Brownsville, El Paso appeared portly General Nicolas Rodríguez boasting: "I have 800,000 men ready to march on Mexico City...
...portraits and of the paintings submitted by jury members and faculty members. Notable among the 308 paintings displayed were Bathers' Picnic, a group of big, pink women in breezy undress by Jon Corbino; Sheldon Street, a Utrillo-like landscape by Francis Speight; The Mirage, an industrial waterfront with wild smoke reflections by Ernest Fiene; Charlie Ervine, a Maine portrait by Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Nov. 15). Awards: for the best picture painted in oil, to Eugene Speicher for Marianna; for the best portrait, to Arnold Blanch for Portrait of a Man; for the best landscape, to Philadelphia's gifted...
...back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...