Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami set to work. He himself arrived by chartered plane and 14 more G-men flew in after him. Divers groped in old limestone quarries and pools; volunteer speedboats toured the keys; Seminoles and white trappers searched in the poisonous Everglades; planes scoured the wide, wild tip of the peninsula-all looking for a child they no longer expected to find alive...
...Coze Dabija, who is a student of Red Indian lore, the club meets weekly at the fashionable riding club Menage Olive. The members, dressed in authentic cowboy clothes ordered from Denver, Colo., learn bronc riding, Western music, plain & fancy roping. Only requirement for membership is sincere interest in Le Wild West, but since its quarters are limited, the club has a long waiting list. Members are all French except for Chief Oskomon. a bonafide Indian, and Pauline Le Breton, daughter of Rear Admiral David Le Breton, U. S. N., assigned last spring to command of the Yangtze River patrol...
Sedate Parisians strolling in the Bois one day last fortnight were startled by unfamiliar sounds: the music of ukuleles and harmonicas, wild cries of "Yipee! Yipee!" Drawn by these noises into the Bagatelle Polo Grounds, they saw about 30 young men & women in outlandish foreign dress-broad-brimmed hats and broad-legged pants, loudly checked shirts and brass-studded belts. They were riding horses and twirling ropes...
...make known the methods of Dr. Carrel's surgery and Aviator Lindbergh's perfusion pump to a far larger body of scientists than it would be practical to instruct in the Rockefeller Institute's Stygian laboratories. Incidentally, the books should still a number of wild rumors of occult doings at the Institute which the penny press has spread through the lay world. Such rumors are typified by the recent announcement in English newspapers that Charles Lindbergh was preparing to have his heart removed and replaced by an indestructible one from grateful Dr. Carrel's stock...
...writings of Dane Coolidge have something of the flavor of an oldtimer's leisurely talk, in which personal reminiscences, anecdotes and tall tales are intermingled. A photographer of wild life long before candid cameras were invented, Coolidge wandered over Southwestern deserts, had the wit to pass up wild animals occasionally and photograph wild human beings instead. In 1903. when he was 30, his wanderings took him into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book...