Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARTHUR WILD Director...
...three, running with the power of a wild buffalo and the cunning of a hounded fox, Harmon scored a touchdown. By half time he had scored another and his running mate, Paul Kromer, had crossed the goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...
Result: By last week some 200,000 of the 1,220,000 évacués had gone back to their city homes. There, with all schools closed, they ran wild in the streets. The Catholic Herald estimated there were 100,000 at large in London. While the press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...
...private letters he said the things he should have said in public. He was almost smug about refusing to use his patronage powers to bring Congressmen into line. He outmaneuvered the silken Senator Nelson Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed...
...White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate...