Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Lawrenceville, N. J. to Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone...
...Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving Honolulu and sent his despatches to the English government...
...Bridge of San Luis Rey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The job of making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died...
...peculiarity of Dr. Wilder was that he abhorred tobacco smoke, was an antismoking crusader. Dr. Papez opened his notebook, made a note...
...Martin '32, J. B. Miller '32, H. P. Minis '30, H. L. McClung Jr. '32, W. M. Nichols '32, A. W. Patterson '32, H. G. Pope '31, R. P. Post '32, J. W. Potter '30, R. H. Sharp '30, W. D. Vogel '30, C. M. Underhill '30, F. F. Wilder '32, R. O. Williams...