Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October 12.--Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale Forestry School has announced that the Yale Corporation, with the approval of the Athletic Association, has set aside 200 acres of the Ray Tompkins Memorial tract near the new Yale golf course as a preserve for the native plant and wild life of this region...
...Characterized by a great variety of trees, shrubs, and wild flowers, already a refuge for birds and animal life of interest to the zoologist, and within easy reach of the university, the preserve offers an unusual opportunity for research and for class work in the field...
...King of Italy's rich daughter; the Savoy family is very wealthy. But, owing to King Victor Emmanuel's hatred of social life and his insistence on a domestic life much more secluded than that of his subjects, his daughters, the Italian princesses, have grown up rather wild in their ways, with a hatred of the trammels of society; the fact is, they have not been trained to take their places in society as leaders at all, and the King is very much embarrassed about this. He was obliged to consent to his eldest daughter, Yolanda, marrying...
Developments in the Press were naturally lass capable of being accurately evaluated, but reflected a general tone of condemnation for Mr. Mellon and sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually...
Possibly the fattening derived from the unlovely Ladies may indirectly have made Accused a reality. The new play is an expensive matter, employing as it does E. H. Sothern among its luxurious adjuncts, and decidedly a wild financial risk...