Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills," is worthy of the descriptive powers of a Swinburne...
...Naples students emitted lusty cries of "Down with the Croats!" In Venice roiled crowds attempted to stage a riotous demonstration in front of the French and Jugoslav Consulates, engaging in a pitched battle with the police, their obstructors. After night fell they made a wild but fruitless dash by gondolas on the Jugoslav consular edifice...
...when E.W. North was a young cowboy riding for Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill), he used this gun to make the last sanctioned killing of wild buffalo on the short grass lands of Nebraska...
During a performance of Otello, President Insull of the Chicago Civic Opera was accosted by one Charles W. King, a wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...
...Story. The twin children of Norman Crowne are William and Emily, whereas the children of Charles Frobisher are their cousins, Trevor and Charlotte. All of them are brought up together; but almost immediately, in William and Emily, appears the wild and enticing madness that had made their father a great poet and, as many people thought even after he had been acquitted in his notorious trial, a murderer. Trevor and Charlotte are clever but a little disagreeable. They take after their father, Charles Frobisher, one of the solemn critics whom Norman Crowne despised...