Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung up his boxing gloves-for good, he said. He added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...
...Chicago's frozen Comiskey Park field, the National (pro football) League's championship was played out in sneakers instead of cleated shoes. The Chicago Cardinals ran wild in them. Halfback Elmer Angsman (ex-Notre Dame) ripped off two touchdown runs of 70 yds.; Halfback Charlie Trippi (ex-Georgia) went 44 and 75 yds. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles did some cavorting, too, but not enough. The score: Cardinals 28, Eagles...
There is ample forest land untouched by fire to provide full recreational facilities, ample supplies to support industry, and adequate protection for wild life in all areas of Maine. Next year and for unnumbered years to come, Maine, both because of its natural assets and the character of its people, will continue to be a good place to work and to live, as well as the "Land of Remembered Vacations...
...companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined by scholars. Biographer Mason Wade found them in overlooked drawers of Parkman's Boston study in 1940, has edited them with care and prefaced them with candor...
Lawyer, Fighter, Poet. He came back a wild man. Students of his career may be reminded of Kenneth Fearing's poem...