Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mondell called for the report of the Committee on Rules. Paul Howland, counsel of Harry M. Daugherty, stepped forward. His report had two interesting features. One was the provision giving women equal representation with men on the National Committee. At this the women delegates went wild. The men expressed approval. The other was a provision giving the National Committee power to oust any committeeman who refused to support the Convention's nominees?a threat for the Wisconsin group if they should turn from Coolidge to La Follette. The roar of approval which this provision produced was as great as that...
...Reginald Denny is fairly pleasing in this screen translation of the insurance salesman who straightens out a policy of a British nobleman insuring him against failure in his American fortune hunting. But what the screen, surfeited with tales of gilded youth, needs most of all is a picture called "Wild Grandpops...
...usual, the astral doctors disagree. Charitably assuming that the "wild statement" is a journalistic interpretation, other well-known astronomers say that the most that can be predicted is that sun spots in different parts of the sun's disk appear to be whirling in opposite directions, and thus, possibly, to be giving the impression that there are disruptive tendencies at work in the body...
...sorts of wild theories of their relation to terrestrial conditions have been advanced. They do seem to be of a magnetic nature and to produce electrical and atmospheric disturbances on the earth at certain periods. Professor Tchijewsky, a Russian scientist, has recently come out with a theory that at sun spot maxima, worldly affairs are excited and wars, revolutions, migrations, etc.. break out. He thinks he has traced definite cycles of such historical events in the 19th Century paralleling the sun spots. The purely fantastic character of this conjecture is obvious; the problem of the physical influence...
...Wild grandpops...