Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...
Attorney General in President Coolidge's cabinet is John Garibaldi Sargent, huge, rustic, wise friend and onetime neighbor of Mr. Coolidge in Vermont. His first assistant is kinetic Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who last week whisked away from magic Washington to New Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died...
...Jersey a miracle has come to pass. In Keansburg is the little Catholic Church of St. Anne's. With its unadorned walls and severe arched windows it resembles a Spanish mission. Two days after Christmas Father Thomas Kearney was roused from his early morning slumber by a wild-eyed townsman who talked of visions. Together they went and stood before the church. On the door shimmered a soft image. A tender, shadowy face, slender hands and billowy robes were suggested in mottled luminescence. At dawn it disappeared. Thereafter the image appeared at twilight, continued through the night. Hundreds heard...
...position adequately. Dempsey who, judged by the eminently suitable criterion of gate receipts, had never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional boxing into a sport more spectacular than any since the wild animal shows of the late Roman Empire, was faced with a far more difficult task, that of preserving its pomp and magnitude...