Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once this year has the student body, or a part of it, shown any real spirit, and that was the Tuesday evening preceding the Texas football game when the mess hall went wild. Since then not a bubble has come to the surface to disturb the utter tranquility of Rice undergraduate affairs...
...69th Congress entered its last session like a mild, limping lamb and exited like a wild, snorting lion. In December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
Those boys were the sons and grandsons of the wild companions of old Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de Bienville, who came to the Mississippi in 1718 to found a city- New Orleans. One hundred years later it had grown into a town of 40,000, half of whom were slaves, where all spoke French...
...between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization are evolved with much probability. There are fine openings for sardonic pros and cons on the late* Mr. George's favorite subject, Woman. Evolution is consistently treated...
...supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild west show, as full of metaphysics as a German university, and more exciting than any combination...