Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild and mysterious creatures perish when progress overtakes them. First the Indians went. Then the buffalos. Now the Brownies are almost gone. Who remembers them? They lived and flourished less than 20 years ago, their habitat neither forest nor prairies, but the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine and their own special books. They are almost gone because they are almost forgotten; children read about Abe Kabibble, Powerful Katinka and the Hall-Room boys. The other day Palmer Cox, artist and author, died at his home in Granby, Quebec. Everybody suddenly remembered the Brownies...
...Melbourne, Australia. At an auction sale, held from the stage, tickets were sold−some at 100 guineas each. It was Dame Nellie Melba's farewell appearance−Melba, for over 20 years the world's greatest singer, true successor to Patti. The vast audiences went wild with joy, cheered and cheered−and eight carloads of flowers were carried to the stage...
...according to reports from Pittsburgh, a cheap process of making stainless iron and steel is being tried out in a number of large mills there. The inventor is Ronald Wild, of England. He, his brother A. H. Wild, founder of a large steel concern in Sheffield, and George Pugiley, another Sheffield man, expert in the open-hearth and electric steel processes, are demonstrating the manner of production...
...process consists in a special method of treating chromite, a natural iron ore with a chromium content, in such a way as to preserve the desired percentage of chromium. Ronald Wild asserts that the process is cheap enough so that "rustless tubes, automobiles and even ships" are possible...
Said The New York World: "In opera it is essential that the tenor shall be either a very young and poor man who gets the girl at last, or else a very wild and rich rake who eventually receives what is known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...