Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will speak on "Why Writers Write and Readers Read" at a meeting of the English 28 Club in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Mr. King, whose first book, "Griselds", was published in 1900, has since that time written many widely read novels such as, "Wild Olive", "The Street Called Straight", and "The Way Home...
Relays of over 300 men are necessary to transport the baggage and equipment on his lengthy trips, numerous pictures of which will be shown. In addition to the photographs of wild animals, which will constitute the greater part of his films, he will have thrown upon the screen numerous views of the famous Victoria Falls and other points of scenic beauty...
Colonel B. K. Eustace, well known African game hunter, will speak at the Union Tuesday evening, November 28, at 8 o'clock and will show at the same time his moving pictures of wild animals taken during his various expeditions. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union, but members may obtain from the office of the Graduate Manager before 5 o'clock that afternoon special guest cards for their friends who are not eligible to membership in the Union...
...showing of 8000 feet of moving picture film will consume all of his time, Colonel Eustace will not deliver a formal lecture, but will instead explain his films as they are thrown upon the screen. These moving pictures are the only ones that have ever been taken of wild animals that were not wounded, drugged, or in captivity. In making, these photographs no beaters were employed to drive the beasts up to the camera...
...idea of abduction by a wild, wandering tribe of Eskimos is ridiculous. In the first place those Eskimos now left on the Labrador are as peaceful a race as can well be found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this...