Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard by Mrs. Snook in Aurora, Ill., over the radio hook-up installed to broadcast the President's speech. Said Mrs. Snook (TIME, May 26 1924): "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." ith the students of Smith College...
...many a Fundamentalist can irk men of reason by simply opposing steadfast faith to inquisitive logic. But Dr. Straton's dogma is not merely steadfast; it is wild and violent. His answers to reasonable inquiry would irritate a St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered pastor of the Central Congregational Church, was in the audience. Startled by the Northerner's tone and manner, Dr. Dodge ventured a question on Dr. Straton's interpretation of evolution. Dr. Straton's reply was as the bolt of a self-appointed God of vengeance. Nettled, Dr. Dodge asked another question...
Paradoxically Barney Barnato, who feared neither man nor the wild beasts of Africa, was bedeviled by two maladies: 1) a fantastic psychic dread that he might lose his millions and have to peddle in the streets again; 2) an incurable eczema which prickled him unbearably in warm weather. One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned...
...eame, it was too tawdry for use, and Borodin's stock fell momentarily in Chinese eyes. But he has brought much beside an inadequate coffin to China-gold, guns, ammunition, though not so much as is popularly believed. As he sped toward Wuchang with Mrs. Sun a wild rumor was concocted: that this frail, and by Chinese reckoning, beautiful woman would be set up as President of China to keep before the masses the great name: SUN YATSEN. Actually such a development is unthinkable because of the ideas about women prevailing among the unreconstructed Chinese. Mrs. Sun, "Mother...
...support Faith by actual, provable fact." He, of course, was concerned chiefly with the movement. For his own claim upon public consideration the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" mentioned his medical training and the fact "that as a public man of affairs I have never shown myself to be wild or unreasonable." Then he traced spiritualism's history* with fitting reference to the Fox sisters† and Abraham Lincoln...