Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought he would retain Secretaries Mellon (Treasury) Davis (War) and New (Postmaster-General). And nearly everyone thought that the next Attorney-General would not be the incumbent who is Mr. Coolidge's good friend, John Garibaldi Sargent; but would be Mr. Hoover's good friend William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan,* who is now assistant to Mr. Sargent. For Secretary of State, Mr. Hoover would consider, it was believed, the claims and abilities of his chief campaigner, Senator William Edgar Borah; and also, of Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and brightest jewel in the Coolidge foreign...
...battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...collegiate playwright whose play wins the play contest after he has been threatened with expulsion from college for helping a "pal" pay a gambling debt. There are many agreeable details in Hello Yourself; among them the hushed rhythms with which Jimmy Ray moves his feet in soft shoes; the wild noises of Waring's Pennsylvanians; and the antics of disjointed Dorothy Lee who might have been drawn by John Held Jr. and whose right stocking is deployed in wrinkles...
Bears abound in Mexico, in the western U. S. and certain other wild places. Invited by Governor of Maine Ralph 0. Brewster, 30 members of a hunting club, including Professor Langdon Warner of Harvard and Sculptor Cyrus Dallin will go to Lucerne. Maine, this week, to hunt bears with bows and arrows...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh went to Mexico after animals and received special permission from the government to shoot two cinnamon bears and two machos berendes (wild bulls). From the Hal Mangum ranch came a despatch telling of Lindbergh's slaying an antelope from an airplane...