Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arguing that the Neutrality Act passed by Congress last Friday is not sufficient to keep the United States out of a possible world conflict, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, spoke on "American Neutrality" last night over station WAAB, in the series of Wednesday evening broadcasts sponsored by the Harvard "Guardian", undergraduate magazine of the social sciences...
Payson S. Wild, instructor in Government, will broadcast on "American Neutrality" over station WAAB at 9 o'clock tonight...
...treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life soon will strike them as insipid and monotonous" though "it is better to choose love affairs before...
...never-ending self-education. To troubled friends he advises, "Read a book, make a friend, take a walk." To himself when impatient with strange people and their causes he recalls the advice his good fishing friend President Grover Cleveland used to give him when he hooked into a wild one: "Go easy on him, Finley, go easy...
...Race" conscious people make wild guesses as to the mentality of races. A group having an inferior culture, from out point of view, does not necessarily belong to an inferior race. Nationality and race cannot bear confusion. Contrary to the general opinion, or prejudice, are records of powerful Negro kingdoms in East and West Africa. For centuries Negroes have been skilled iron-workers; in 1500 they did bronze casting to perfection. Much of India's civilization is owed to Negroes. Seventy years of emancipation for the American Negro are no fair test of his capacity. See how Europeans estimated...