Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...
...Wild, Wild Susan. Bebe Daniels has fallen into the clutches of another ponderous plot. It is a burlesque melodrama which calls for her appearance in overalls. There is also Rod La Rocque...
...postponement did not mean abandonment of Mr. Andrews' program. He has two eager allies in the persons of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Willebrandt. The three are substantially one in purpose. It is supposed to have been Mr. Donovan, a former Army officer of the same type as Mr. Andrews, who induced Mr. Andrews to give up a lucrative civil job for a thankless political...
...above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each other thought of another battle in which a champion who could box met a challenger who could hit, said: "The biggest thrill since Dempsey smacked Firpo...
Said Prof. William E. Wild, onetime Professor of Economics at Christian College, Allahabad, India...