Word: wildish
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...London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside the Thames River. For 28 years Uncle Sam perched morosely in his tree while he and Elmer Kenerson grew old. Even after his job as park superintendent was abolished in 1925, the man took stale meat to the eagle twice every day. Kenerson could...
...appeared in London, a most erratic youth much given to "raw silk of good color," violent tennis and fencing, more violent language and gestures, and to two strong veins of poetry, lyric and satirical, he was adopted by descendants of the Pre-Raphaelite movement-as far as a wildish young man can be adopted. They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each...
...parts were taken in a way that recalled the best performances of previous years. Mr. Gifford as the barber-count, Mr. Rice as Sir Humphrey Noddy, and Mr. Loring as Trim, one could hardly have wished better; while Mr. Harvard and Mr. Fenn also acted with spirit and intelligence. Wildish had serious defects in voice and delivery, and was unfortunately reluctant to face anyone he addressed...
...cast of "Bury Fair," to be given by the Delta Upsilon Fraternity this March, has been definitely decided upon as follows: Lord Bellamy, L. deJ. Harvard '15 Mr. Wildish, D. Loring '16 Mr. Trim, J. P. Brown '14 Mr. Oldwit, R. C. Fenn '15 Sir Humphrey Noddy, W. W. Rice '14 La Roche, J. P. Gifford '14 First Valet, N. L. Tibbetts '15 Charles, F. H. Canaday '14 Second Valet, C. H. Smith '15 Lady Fantast, C. Wetherell '08 Mrs. Fantast, J. S. Zinsser '15 Mrs. Gertrude, W. B. Breed '15 Philadelphia, F. H. Canaday '14 Luce, W. W. Kent...
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