Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moros are homogeneous, both springing from Malayan origins. But in the migrations from Malay there were many distinct tribes, of which the Visayan is now preponderant in the Philippines. The Moros were the last tribe to migrate, after their Mohammedan conversion. They are still classified among the Islands' "wild" tribes and their frequent uprisings against the Visayans are due as much to tribal as to religious animosity...
...Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
...door-slamming society slapstick. Miss Negri impersonates a young feminine assistant in an architect's office. Her duty in life seems to be to save one of the junior partners from an unworthy alliance with a married woman. Later the story shifts to Florida and farce runs wild. Miss Negri is less at home with heedless humor than she is with the hot cyclones of emotion...
...really looks as though the Castigator were going to take a few last slashes at E. Wesson Woodbury and finish the story in unparalleled Open Spaces style. Prescott curses his bumbling tormentor, quits him and goes off with sympathetic Joe Easter. Joe philosophizes with winning rusticity, curbs wild nature with handsome ease and is quite touching about his young wife, a city manicure-girl regenerated by Nature...
Lord Jeffrey Amherst was a soldier of the king And he sailed from across the se-ee-ee-ea; To the Frenchmen and the Indians he didn't do a thing In the wilds of this wild countree-ee-ee. In the wilds of this wild country...