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Word: wildes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman whose serious cast of countenance belies his reputation as one of the most irresistible Negro stage comedians who ever slapped a softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Florence Mills Warned | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...veteran Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until one man had been retired in the eighth inning. Against such pitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Series | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...guardian's choice. Jimmie could not see it and had a way of running off with an actress for Atlantic City weekends. Thereby he nearly lost a fabulous fortune. There are audiences who will eat it up and some who will not touch it. It has wild oats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

During the past fortnight explorers startled their native shores with tales that inspired many a wild surmise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Book, like most modern biography, wears the gallant armour of fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John Jones | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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