Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...
...struck by the Guild, has been attacked not only frontally by aggressive picketing, but on the flank by a Guild campaign directed at Eagle advertisers. At Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store a Guild demonstrator in a gorilla suit dashed up and down escalators until women's wild shrieks brought police. Said the sign on the hairy picket's back: "I don't buy my cocoanuts at A & S because they advertise in the Eagle...
...watercolors, here deleting a leaf-spray, there toning down a garish sunset sky, altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants...
...Audubon, who said he was the child's father. Variously called Fougere ("Fern"), La Foret, and plain Jean Jacques, the pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home. After brief study of painting under Classicist David, he was sent to America, where he devoted himself to sketching wild life, playfully at first, later so earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible explorations-from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west to the Ohio's falls, through Kentucky meadows (where Daniel Boone...
After three years of frustration, victory starved Crimson grid adherents went, wild following Harvard's conquest of the undefeated some of Eli Saturday afternoon, and made the aftermath of this classic struggle one of the wildest and most jubilant celebrations ever...