Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flaming Youth endeavors to establish that young men and maidens wild are going up in the smoke of their own cigarettes. It contains all the rabble of trashy devices which cinema directors employ traditionally to indicate the younger degeneration, even to the midnight bathing party. All this is un-tunate, since the story of the socially rabid mother who on her deathbed persuaded her physician to write her spirit letters of her daughter's progress, is rather ingenious. She gave the girl the combination of the safe where the letters were to be left, hoping that the reports...
...case the point is far from proved. The evidence upon which the Times bases its argument is at best unsatisfactory and incomplete. The need for extraordinary measures is slight. "Harvard authorities" will probably continue to take action only on extreme and exemplary cases, and the crop of wild oats will probably grow less in the course of time, due to a scarcity of seed, and to an increasing sanity on the part of the sowers...
...those whose predilections turn by instinct to musical comedy, the following are recommended: Music Box Revue, Poppy, Ziegfeld Follies, Stepping Stones, Runnin' Wild, Wildflower...
...Wild Bill Hickok. William S. Hart has emerged after two years of intellectual contemplation-the study of American history (at least so the wondering world has been informed) The problem is "Why?" His new picture is a typical Will Hart Western. Possibly his historical details are increasingly accurate. What of it? He was always inimitable-the greatest cowboy that ever faced a camera. Even William S. Hart by taking two years' thought cannot add one cubit to his stature...
...Goats were the objects of our expedition. These goats now wild but descended from a domestic herd left on the islands 400 years ago by Zargo, manage to obtain water for life from dew and scant fresh water pools in the rock, inaccessible to men. The goats were remarkably agile in moving about in the rocks but they did not far surpass in this art, the natives of the Madeiran village of Canico. These, accustomed to hunting the shearwater gulls among the rocks for the purpose of their feathers and wax, and the orchilla lichen for its dye mounted...