Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is to be changed in October. Certain objections have been lodged at the Juilliard headquarters. There have been rumors of skylarking, of the "waving of wild legs" in naughty European centres, of an inadequately intense devotion to purely artistic education. The Foundation has therefore decided to mingle stern wisdom with its generosity in the future. American control, on the spot, is to be substituted for American beneficiaries' sippings of la vie de Boh?...
...wild animals, the okapi* is considered the shyest, the most subtle. The first white man who ever tracked and shot one and brought back the skin and skeleton has arrived in Manhattan, on his way to lecture before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, soon to meet in Toronto. Dr. Cuthbert Christy, naturalist, explorer, investigator of tropical diseases, has told of his long okapi hunt in a book which will be published in the U. S. -Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Necessarily it was a long...
...first two events completed were the 10,000-metre run and the javelin-throw. Rushing over a muddy track, Willie Ritola took the former for Finland so fast (30 min. 23 sec.) that he smashed his own world's record. Wide, of Sweden, his arms high, wild, awkward, was 200 yds. behind. Jonnie Myyra of Finland hurled his javelin 207 ft., leaving Swedish hurlers second and sixth, Americans third and fifth...
Unguarded Women. Here is a picture that is better than its title, which suggests flappers running wild through Hollywood. Instead, it is a sterling drama of a man's struggle to conquer the innate cowardice of his soul, done without a single heave of the bosom. Richard Dix, with manly and yet inoffensive touch, depicts a War veteran, acclaimed as a hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying...
...tremendously serious. I have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax of his novel will be, therefore...