Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among these "herbs," Nazi officials solemnly announced are pansies, wild briar and the leaves of strawberries and blackberries...
...long as the theatre of war remains some 4,500 air miles away from India, Indians will probably show no haste in deciding to help the British Lion. Last week, however, the old bugbear of Russian expansion was looming in the North. There were reports of mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet...
...said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died at his own hand, just...
...when, the late, great Teddy Roosevelt pranced around the arena at Cheyenne's Frontier Days celebration, rodeos were a novelty even in his wild & woolly West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...
...before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...