Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington. When the revolution broke last year, hot-headed...
...sturdy, dark and rather lazy. Not so long ago, however, some of them bestirred themselves enough to go out and capture a pair of anoas, dwarf buffalo. They were beautiful anoas, about the color of Jersey cows. The male 85 lb., the female 75 Ib. The smallest of wild cattle, they belong to one of a number of rare species peculiar to Celebes and three small islands nearby.* Dutch officials were overjoyed when this latest captured pair was brought in. Forthwith the anoas were shipped off to The Netherlands Government zoo at Surbaya, Java, which generously gave them away...
...Evanston City Council concluded that it did not have any jurisdiction over lions, either. Then Alderman Eddy S. Brandt, of the Sixth Ward, rose and made a motion that "lions and tigers and other wild animals" be kept to the west of Evanston. Mayor Henry D. Penfield added: "I now move that the reference include the Evanston Lion's Club." The Council shouted approval, but the motion, as amended, was hastily shuttled off to the judiciary committee, leaving King Tuffy still in Evanston...
Strangest feature of The Seven Who Fled is not its gutter transcendentalism but its combination of vivid physical descriptions and wild poetic fantasy. Reading in part like a travel book, it is at the same time peopled with characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched...
...China's first manual on poker-playing, he not only turned out a tremendous bestseller, but had the deep satisfaction of restoring that game to the classic traditions obtaining when he played it in Fort Worth, Tex. 30 years ago, before decadence set in through the use of wild cards...