Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same unleashed wild prophecies lead to hysteria. Our people are easily stirred. Such forebodings may bring on panic in which men lose control of themselves in a blind fear of the incomprehensible. There has been not so much irrational talk in Germany about starvation as in America, although here even our very poor have enough to eat, from the present German standard...
...important post of Devil's Advocate amid the blatant orthodoxy of undergraduate life. And it has filled it, as anyone outside of College will tell you, with no little distinction. The Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does a heretic find shorter shrift than in an American university, so, particularly at this time when orthodoxy in word and deed has been...
...wild enthusiasm which greeted their appearance yesterday in Boston need doubt the sincerity of the affection our people feel for France...
...with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees in him a tool of the cruel, laughing Tiger. Hale is merely youthfully flirtatious, but it is all beautiful reality to the girl. Before long she discovers Hale's insincerity. Asano, loyally, tries to kill...
...There was no wild outburst of enthusiasm for war in either England or any of the other countries when we saw that Germany was bound to cause our entrance into the war. We knew what we were up against and realized that it was different from all former wars. The situation was much similar to the one Voltaire was placed in when he was asked if he was in favor of capital punishment and replied, 'Certainly, let the assassins begin.' The war is being fought by the Germans on Allied territory, and is being carried nearer and nearer...