Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent Mark Hanna: "He damned Roosevelt and said: 'I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now, look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States.' . . . He came to my seat at the other end of the car and said: 'That damned cowboy wants me to take supper with him, alone. Damn him!' I said: 'Mark, you are acting like a child. Go and meet him half...
Irvin S. Cobb: " I boarded a taxi in Manhattan, and was taken on such a wild ride that I finally had the chauffeur arrested for reckless driving. He got 15 days in the workhouse and I got a bad scare...
...Privates and Privateering", by Commander E. P. Statham, R.N. Here, lovers of the wild, the weird and the wooly, is something worth reading. James Pott of London published this book at $2.50. Community Book Shop offers...
...whole horror of their oppression and fear before the face of Mystery, there where Mystery pervades all life. I watched the rivers during the severe cold break with a rumbling rear their chains of ice: saw lakes cast up on their shores the bones of human beings: heard unknown wild voices in the mountain ravines: made out the fires over miry swamps of the will o'-the-wisps: witnessed burning lakes: gazed upward to mountains whose peaks could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen...
Foreign exchange rates, after their recent wild fluctuations, proved steady. In the case of German marks, which remained at the same low level for more than a week, this was extraordinary when it is remembered that the Reichsbank successively issued 440 billion and 420 billion new paper marks during the past two weeks. Indeed, almost 1½ trillion marks, or about 50% of the present outstanding issue, were added during February. Under such conditions it is plain that the present efforts of the Government to stabilize German exchange rates are foredoomed to failure...