Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motors roared; Fijians retreated, howling with fear and regret. Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
...Hallett 3, Left on bases-Harvard 11, William and Mary 3. Double plays-Bloxsom to Scammon. Hits-or Cassidy, 3 in 2 innings (note out in taird); off Etheridge 5 in 3 inngs (none out in sixth); off Hallett 5 in 3 innings Passed balls-O'Farrell 2. Wild pitch-Cassedly. Time-2.07 Umpires-Stafford and Kellether...
...Hits--off Young, 4 in 5 innings; off Whitney, 3 in 2 innings; off Goode, 0 in 1 inning. Struck out--by Whitmore 3; Goode 1. Base on balls--off Young 3; off Whitmore 3; off Whitney 2; off Goode 1. Double play--Young to Abbott to Nash. Wild pitch, Whitmore. Losing pitcher--Whitney. Time--2 hours 15 min. Umpires--Morey and Stafford...
...lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous feats, such as descending from a synthetic fire at the roof of the big-top, by parachute, mounted on a horse. Finding this trick too monotonous, she had recently returned...
...must have had strange feelings of dismay mixed with his anticipations of the journey that lay before him. In Manhattan, a pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...