Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
Throughout Western Java in the Netherlandic Indies concerted Communist revolts broke out last week, seemingly indicating that the Indonesian Communist Party is much stronger than Netherlanders had thought. In Batavia, a mob made wild a sultry night with shootings and torch-flamings. In lesser towns, murders of district-chiefs were reported...
Cider flowed free and the biscuits were hard. The music was wild and the crowd wilder. The chaperones were good and their wives "gooder." The decorations were pretty and the girls prettier. The costumes were rare and the dancing was rarer. It really was a good party, if you don't believe it ask someone who went...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...
Married. Lucille Quarry, of the editorial staff of the Woman's Home Companion, to Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, Washington, who returned last fortnight from Africa with 1,700 live wild animals (TIME...