Word: wildeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the news that the whale-nosed Bremen had lowered the Atlantispeed record by nearly nine hours, the City of Bremen went wild last week. Germany's President, rheumy Paul von Hindenburg. sent congratulatory telegrams. City fathers, clubs and corporations lunched and dined, rapturously drank each other's health. In New York, correspondents of German newspapers rushed pages and pages to the cable offices, announcing that the entire city had Ein furchtbares Bremenfieber, a furious Bremen-fever. With precision they noted these points...
...Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal in the rocky woods...
Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...
...rushed to his bank, clamored for his money, brought on the very disaster that he feared. The bank failure climax came last week when Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. of Tampa closed its doors and carried down with it nine subsidiary banks. Between fruit flies, bad notes and wild rumors, a wholesale panic appeared imminent...
Hair bedraggled, shoes unbuttoned, trousers unbelted, wild-eyed in a mauve pajama jacket, Morris Gest, theatre man (The Miracle), arrived in Denver in an automobile. Near Stratton, Col., a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons had drowned. Showman Gest described the accident repeatedly, volubly to newsgatherers : how the cars had rolled over on their sides in the water; how he, asleep, tad had a "rude" awakening; how he grabbed in-the dark, caught his watch-chain hanging from the upper berth, bashed through the window...