Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild Wood...
...Wilderness City."Carved out of the wild, the city's growth was feeble at first. After being burned by the British in 1814, it made a fresh start, sprawled out of the bounds of the L'Enfant plan. Impatient at delays, President Jackson thrust his cane into the ground and said: "Here, right here let the corner stone of the Treasury Building be laid...
Also in on several of these secret tête-a-têtes was poker-faced Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. Surprising credence was achieved by a wild rumor that Mr. Young contemplated the resignation of his friend and protege, Seymour Parker Gilbert, as Agent-General of Reparations and had in mind as his successor M. Moreau. On the assumption that Germany really cannot pay as much as France is sure she can, it might be well for the French government's chief financial adviser to find that out for himself in Berlin. Persistent rumors apart, there was no reason...
Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...
...have profaned the House of God. outraged the decencies of nature and broken the law of man," cried Sir Ernest Wild, K. C., Recorder of London, at Old Bailey court, last week. After elaborating these thoughts for some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...