Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia gave minor recognition to some major authors. James T. Farrells Studs Lonigan (published in three volumes, 1932, '34, '35), Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932), William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...
...Salon of 1905 the stuff exploded. Matisse's paintings had been put in the same room with those of other crazy young men: Rouault, Dufy, Derain and Vlaminck. Almost everyone who peeked into that room came away reeling with outrage. The new painters were just fauves, they decided-wild beasts-and Henri Matisse the wildest...
Fort's books (Lo!, Wild Talents) were enthusiastically hailed by a group of U.S. literary exhibitionists including Alexander Woollcott and Tiffany Thayer. In 1931 they formed the Fortean Society, dedicated to "the frustration of science." The society, which has no real magnetic field, just a gelatinous shell, petered out, leaving science no more frustrated than usual. But the tradition goes on. Next time the rain washes dust or pollen or algae out of the air, some newspaper will probably report that "scientists were mystified." They often are, but not by green rain...
These deep-city innocents pay a lot too much for a piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon...
...errors by shortstop Mort Dunn, added to a wild pitch and two hit batsmen by hurler Charley Roche were the most unfortunate factors in a disastrous fifth inning at Washington, D.C. last Wednesday which allowed George Washington University to score six runs and coast to a 14-10 win over the Crimson...