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Word: wildes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise introduced an extravagant offshoot of the Boy Scouts into Siam and assisted Queen Lakshmi in the creation of Siamese Girl Guides and the Royal Wild Tiger Corps. Since Rama's father, King Chulalongkorn, had left behind him 600 widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters, it was considered highly scandalous that Rama IV had no sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Self-Crowned | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...reaction to the fashionable Nordic propaganda of late years. But the suggestion of a cultural and racial alignment of Teuton against Mediterranean is rather formidable in the contemplation. A further thought, however, will convince that the turbulent and comparatively poor nations of the south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational standards, possibly, although the supposition is fraught with interesting doubts, its political stability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMITY AMONG THE LATINS | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction, and I must say that he did the United States a great favor when he departed Parisward. Paris isn't wild about Americans, but we will go there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...BUTTER AND EGG MAN?The matter of $25,000 lost and found on a wild theatrical production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Yale still showed lack of practice, a handicap the Blue has been laboring under all winter due to lack of an artificial risk and the unreliability of natural ice in the vicinity of New Haven. Only at times did their combination play become dangerous, and their wild shooting rendered futile several dangerous advances into Crimson territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI SEXTET BOWS IN LAST CONTEST TO CUMINGS' MEN | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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