Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheyenne, famed Train Robber William ("Wild Bill") Carlisle, 57, was granted a full pardon by the State of Wyoming. In his prime, Wild Bill bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...strange man came up to me. He seemed uninjured. He held his arms stiffly by his side. His eyes were wide open, wild and staring, and tears were pouring down his cheeks. He was whispering hoarsely, "Les Fascistes, les Fascistes, les Fascistes. . . ." I asked him his name and what he was doing. He looked at me without understanding and whispered, "Ah, les Fascistes, les Fascistes...
Most of that tide seemed to consist of Princeton's John Weber, Held under Wraps before the game, Weber ran wild through the middle of the Crimson line...
Died. Robert Anderson ("Wild Horse Bob") Crosby, 50, battered "King of the Cowboys"; in a jeep accident; near Roswell, N.Mex. During his 26 years as a rodeo star, prosperous Rancher Crosby broke almost every bone in his body, became undisputed champion in the sport by thrice making high score at the giant Pendleton (Ore.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.) rodeos...
Baudelaire's parents tried to check his dissipations and steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter. He was soon living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...