Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successor to Mr. Davis, Attorney General Stone chose "Wild Bill" Donovan, a man who was a pupil of his 20 years ago, when the Attorney General was a professor in the Columbia Law School. Colonel William J. Donovan, a Buffalo man, was U. S. Attorney in the Western District of New York until his appointment. He is now only 41. During the War he served overseas, was thrice wounded. He is one of two men who received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal. Recently he has been known to the public...
...Valera and his followers, a noisy minority, cannot see the wood for the trees, and they continue to advocate an Irish Republic- possibly because such advocacy has become a habit. For the same reason he possibly continues to hate England. Thus, always playing on the same string, he stirs wild enthusiasm in the bosoms of those who think as he does. His speech...
...arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside his door; later, he put down a native riot, shot a hippopotamus, trapped a lion, was hoodooed by a witch-doctor, barely escaped being trampled by a herd of wild elephants...
...wild charges that the murder of Mrs. Evans was the work of Agrarians have proved false. Three ignorant criminals are guilty in the case which moved the Mexican Republic. . . . The coincidence that the name of this unfortunate lady has been closely connected with the Cummins affair gave a singular aspect to the case. Moreover, the assassination of a woman advanced in age is a disgrace sincerely lamentable and has been felt by all public officials and the greater part of the Mexican family...
Robert M. LaFollette: "I was reported to be 'paralyzing Washington' by wearing a hat with a straw crown, felt brim. Said a Chicago colyumist: 'Since Bob made an animal all his own out of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, he's simply running wild. He'll be eating ice-cream on his ham and eggs next...