Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teutonic throng burst into a wild ovation at the portion of the speech devoted to Jews. In very coarse language a pledge was given by the Feldmarschall that within three years Vienna will be a city composed exclusively of Aryans...
...100th running of the Grand National, the old-legend of the founding of steeplechasing was retold more frequently than usual-how one hot night in the early 1770s a befuddled country squire led his guests out in their night-shirts, mounted them, and led them in a wild race over hedge, fence & field to distant Nachton Village Church steeple. A view of the finish of that first steeplechase was engraved by John Harris in 1839, the year of the first Grand National. That year and for over two decades afterwards all steeplechases had a faintly unsavory character. Gentlemen...
...bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept...
...scrimmage following the highball drill Chief Comslop and Fluff Stevadore ran positively wild churning up the water in the Bowl. Waters admitted that their performance may have been due to a favorable internal influence...
...this is hardly fair. We must remember that this composer was writing for the pleasure of the court, and the pleasure of the court is fickle. Thus a work would be performed, enjoyed, laid aside, and in the wild search for something novel would be completely forgotten. Thus the general public got no opportunity to judge of the merit of Purcell's compositions...