Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear-hunter, Joseph (Frenchy) Duret, who poached on park animals. In 1922, a grizzly killed him. That summer Mr. Cochran, at the suggestion of the Colonel bought the ranch at a high price, in order to deliver from the hands of unsavory characters, to preserve for the happiness of wild life. Mr. Cochran (although reserving a little) turned over the control to the National Park Service, which has the use of the ranch today. Always Mr. Cochran has given far more than he has received...
...Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself was beginning: to wonder. He had hit the ball hard before. It had gone out. He hit it twice as hard. It went in. His Partner picked up heart, and assisted by the errors of erratic Williams, they ran out the set 8-6 added the next to their score...
...Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent in the game conservation movement and advanced a plan for establishing game sanctuaries throughout the country-not a few large ones, but many medium sized ones-on land not well suited for other purposes, sanctuaries where wild life could multiply under complete protection and spread over the surrounding country. Of late he has been Director of the Bronx Zoological Garden of New York City, has raised it to a high rank among roos...
...speculation in Florida real estate is nationwide, and very wild; sporadic outbreaks of the same fever are, however, to be seen in many other sections of the country on a smaller scale. The collapse of Los Angeles real estate speculation is forgotten...