Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking in "obscene" literature. Thus last week DeVoto, out to expose Boston's behind-the-counter prudery, forced a test case on the ban. As an unscheduled fillip to these negotiations, a copy of John Wilder May's Law of Crimes (438 pp.) tumbled off the bookseller's shelf, crowned one of the cops...
...Rose Wilder Lane, novelist (Let the Hurricane Roar, Free Land), mother of two Army sons, told why she had retreated to her Connecticut farm, given up writing for the duration-of the New Deal. Cried she: "I don't see why I should work to support the Writers' War Board, the OWI and all such New Deal piffle while men are dying and there is work to be done at home...
...Canol," the U.S. was committed to a project requiring 200,000 tons of shipping space, hundreds of vital priorities, shiploads of precious refinery equipment, 4,000 troops, 12,000 civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...
...heavy siege guns of the Administration last week joined in annihilating drumfire on a lone freshman Republican Senator. The Senator: Nebraska's hum drum Hugh Butler, who huffed back from a South American journey with wild tales and wilder figures to show that Good Neighborliness was a $6-billion boondoggle (TIME...
...American Promoter. This showcase of normalcy was discovered quite by chance by Alfred Hitchcock and Thornton Wilder, when they were wondering where to make Shadow of a Doubt. But Santa Rosa might never have played a repeat performance as the All-American town had it not been for sandy-haired, bazooka-voiced Charles G. Dunwoody, manager of Santa Rosa's Chamber of Commerce...