Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French in a country where Nazi influence is increasing daily; the radical National Peasant Party because it offends King Carol; and the Fascist...
...Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...
...night go-odd years ago, a group of wild young rapscallions broke into a Masonic temple in Cayuga County, N. Y., put on the ceremonial robes and organized a mock secret society. One of these young limbs was an eloquent, enterprising Union College graduate named Lewis Henry Morgan. A crusading teetotaler but a hard smoker and poker player who had leisure for such japes because hard times kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies...
...there's one man who doesn't expect to be taken in by wild dreams of success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break...
...America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books...