Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court was informed that Herr Schwarz' occupation was that of a cinema director specializing in "Wild West" productions. He had been arraigned upon charges preferred by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
Herr Schwarz barked a few terse orders. Well schooled, his helpers lashed at the horses, succeeded in urging them to a wild dash toward the cliff's edge, where they halted, reared...
...GREAT GOD BROWN?Eugene O'Neill's wise but wild investigation into the unwritten commandment that thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's brains...
...Hornaday has studied and collected wild life in virtually every retreat and game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...greatest asset is his ability to think straight; to recognize facts. He is not gailty of the twisted reasoning that incites revolutions and riots. He realizes that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points even when it is couched in unfamiliar terms. He does not run wild on fantastic theories. Everything is subjected to analysis. It must be able to satisfy a mind that takes nothing for granted...