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Word: wildeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Walter Hill, 45, youngest son of the late great Railroader James J. Hill; by Mrs. Mildred Richardson Hill, onetime chorus girl (No, No Nannette); at Livingston, Mont. Grounds: kept secret. When suing him for divorce two years ago she said he was "wild as the Montana scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...enough to make the Christians champions of the southwest on their record. Utah's Rocky Mountaineers, winners in their conference, finished a perfect season by tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore for Yale at the start of the season. Nice passes and a fake end run made them 12, Alabama 0. Kicks were the important thing in weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President Coolidge summered at Black Hills he was presented with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Presidential Pets | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: "One can imagine our shaggy ancestors fighting fiercely with other wild savages or can picture them chasing through the dark underbrush after an animal that they hoped to broil over their fires that evening for dinner. Then, in the protection of the cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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