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Word: wildeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -and- CRITIQUES | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

...theme is also a well known one to regular movie goers, dealing as it does with several phases of the underworld. It is far from subtle but some of the dialogue by its very obviousness cannot fail to raise a laugh from the most cynical observer. The transposed wild west finish of the picture is crude in the extreme and reminiscent of the early days of the motion picture industry

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/29/1929 | See Source »

...sudden be cut off. A referendum has been introduced which . . . seeks to create an appearance that Germany could now force her wishes and demands on the victors in the World War. . . . "The entire referendum is based on transparent dishonesty. It is based on the wild claim that previous German foreign policy has rested on the recognition of Germany's War Guilt. . . . "The German people have now to choose between sense and nonsense. . . . Whoever subscribes to this referendum promotes the disintegration and enslavement of the German people." Foreign editors reading this declaration looked hard at the 72 signatures, compared them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sense v. Nonsense | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Second Game. Outfielder Jimmy Foxx, the youngest Philadelphian, knocked a wild pitch for a home-run, his second of the series, with two friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...society, but if they were to glance about with a little more regard for facts and a little loss regard for their own enviable position, the story would be of quite another color; and a color more favorable to the pathetic, abused Orphans of the Culture Reform storms: the wild present generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

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