Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild Asses)-"It is just about time for these money-making attacks on the younger generation to cease...
...WILD DUCK?A courageous and capable production of Ibsen's searching study in anti-idealism. A play one must not miss...
...curious raptures which affect men upon seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came out of winter quarters, began its 1925 season with an engagement in Manhattan...
...spangles who wear jeopardy like a flower in their hair, sword- swallowers, snake-charmers, clowns in shreds and patches, fat women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth; no clown breathes the naughty story he will not tell the crowd into the leopard's sullen ear, most earnestly hoping that the creature will not take offense...
Stomach-punching wild beasts...