Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula...
News rote from the headlines of the estimable Boston Evening American "Wellesley's Dormitories Like Jungle--Wild Animals of Many Kinds are to be Seen There...
...inability of the Crimson booters to put the ball away after they had advanced to a scoring position cost them the game. The shooting of the Cambridge forwards was wild, while that of the Springfield invaders was well aimed and caused the Crimson net guardian plenty of trouble...
...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...