Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wild Plot. Then the pros-Bill O'Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...
Every now & then, Nye Bevan gets away from his desk and takes a stroll along the seaside with several old cronies. He will stop at a stall to eat winkles, go wild on the swings, and will not miss a single peep show of the "What the Butler Saw" species. During one of these strolls, recently, Bevan dropped a penny into a fortune-telling slot machine. The note which the machine returned declared: "Not another personality is as sparkling as yours, nor a personality with such inherent righteousness...
Mellowing Jack Dempsey, 53, revealed that he gets Christmas and birthday greetings regularly from Gene Tunney, and that Luis Firpo (the Wild Bull of the Pampas) drops him an occasional letter...
...staff that includes professors John M. Gaus, Howard Mumford Jones, Samuel E. Morrison, Benjamin F. Wright, Bart J. Bok, Lynn H. Loomis, and john D. Wild, and a genial Housemaster named Leigh Hoadley...
After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...