Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss Alps...
Said the Americus (Ga.) Times Recorder: "We rather think it a case of religious fanaticism running wild. Pardue is . . . wrapped in his little shell of self-conceit . . . he used underhand methods . . . he soiled the cloth he wears. And what good has his babbling accomplished? . . . He created a furor in his woodland village and he had the pleasure of seeing his name and picture in the papers. . . . For a few days he was a big pig in a little...
...late; when Fifi Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John Sands has been shot, the play breaks into a wild, inharmonious and exciting rhythm; its draughty madness is terrifying, not by virtue of black paws or of guns offstage but because it conveys somehow the impression that God has gone away, that the world is being run now by the cheerful, sardonic, hideous Furies...
Martin and Claire, faced by the challenge of Helen's kidnaping, sink their own love in a wild, valorous ride to rescue her. Helen's abductor is shot by Claire, who realizes in the heat of killing that she cannot take Martin from his wife of "wildrose beauty...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Albany, along with other famed aviators, to speak in favor of the New York program. He was heard with wild enthusiasm by a joint session of the New York Legislature, which had not gathered to hear a stranger from without since Prince Henry of Prussia went to Albany...