Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From many places on the Continent of Europe, wild shouts were heard. The U. S. had abandoned its policy of isolation, had come back to Europe once more! Everywhere old hatreds and bitternesses were forgotten. Everywhere the U. S. was extolled. All the leading statesmen paid tribute to the U. S. attitude. All said that U. S. co-operation had been bought at a cheap price...
Processional. The Theatre Guild, having this season produced two gross financial (and artistic) successes,* resolutely entered its laboratory and emerged with the findings of a wild experiment. The play is an effort in American expressionism by John Howard Lawson, called a "jazz symphony of life" and seems at last a somewhat hazy reference to Joyce's Ulysses...
Thayer Hall--No. 3, Alexander McGilverie: No. 4, Archibald Craige, No. 10, The White Monkeys; No. 15, Agnes Ayres; No. 17, Lambert Deiser; No. 19, Gold Dust Twins; No. 25, Jonathan Herlock; No. 26, Plato and Aristotle; No. 37, Deuces Wild; No. 49, Two Prayers; No. 50, Spyke; No. 61, Andy...
...daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used merely to give light for night digging...
Last year proved a profitable one for sugar producers, but not for refiners, who were hit hard in many instances by the wild fluctuations of raw sugar...