Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President, bowing, smiling; snapped Mrs. Coolidge, bowing, smiling, carrying a presentation bouquet of roses and wild Canterbury bells. The President's visit started a boom for Governor Bulow for the Democratic nomination to the Vice Presidency...
...Running Wild (W. C. Fields). Ever since Herr Freud took to unsnarling the human mind, playwrights have reveled in the possibilities of Jeff's suddenly out-mutting Mutt. Not the least amusing of such fancies is this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks...
Meanwhile the staffs of General Obregon and President Calles discussed with animation in an adjoining coach the details of an attempt upon the President's life, early last fortnight. A crazed woman, Maria Luisa Jauregui, had fired six shots at him, all of which went wild...
...before one could say jack rabbit or Lindbergh or drink a malted milk, we had taken the subway for a ride and were at the Wild West Show. "Do you suppose--do you suppose they'll have, real Indians?" My roommate is one of those cynical fellows. I said that there were more live Indians to be had since the others were dead or something equally significant. Which should have closed his mouth to further gaucherie...
...Deutsch, Thomas, Cole. Three base hits, Chauncey, Donaghy. Stolen bases, Donaghy, Zarakov, Lord. Bases on balls, off Barbee 1, off Sanford 5. Sacrifice hits, Armstrong 2, Burns. Struck out, by Barbee 7, by Sanford 7. Hit by pitched ball, by Sanford (Ullman). Left on bases, Pennsylvania 3, Harvard 7, Wild pitches, Barbee, Sanford. Umpires, Baltzel and Warner. Time of game, 2 hours, 38 minutes...