Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, one John Wilder, 80, Vermont fiddler, did not hesitate to blazon far and wide that he is an uncle of President Coolidge. He announced that he had read of the exploits of "Mellie" Dunham, famed "fiddler-to-Ford," and is prepared to play for the fiddling championship of New England. A few credulous, unmusical reporters were impressed when Mr. Wilder displayed his violin. "I tell you it's nearly 100 years...
Numerals for Freshman cross-country were awarded to J. O. Wilder '29, who placed among the first three in the Harvard Yale meet. A. S. Wooworth '29, J. W. Downing '29, W. R. McLaurin '29, and F. J. Mumford '29, manager, were awarded...
...described it as normal, well proportioned, well preserved. He weighed it. It weighed 1,150 grams, exactly the same weight as the brain of Dr. Burt G. Wilder, who contributed his brain to the Association last January...
...Burt Green Wilder, born in 1841, was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) in 1862 in anatomia summa cum laude. He served in the Civil War as surgeon of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (colored). Afterward he became curator of herpetology for the Boston Society of Natural History, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards...
...values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young French decadents. Tired of this, he reacts against them, against himself, adopting in his sonnets a lyricism that has come down to him, thinned and sweetened, from the lutes of the 17th Century cavaliers. Thus a very old and a very new spirit speak...