Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
...Wild Bill toured with Buffalo Bill's troupe in the flesh...
...mood was the spirit of the wild black yonder as the seven Mercury Astronauts, after rigorous physical and psychological tests, were presented to the public with the promise that one of them will be space-bound in two years. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rendezvous with Destiny...
...suntan, goombay music, Beefeater Gin (at $2 a bottle), crazy straw hats and Sweet Richard's single-entendre ditties at the Cat and Fiddle Club. Commerce, which flourished briefly in the blockade-running days of the Civil War and the rum-running days of Prohibition, is again running wild. And, in a respectable way, the pirates are back...
Eilshemius' muse was wayward, poetic, and in the end cruel. Critic Duncan Phillips notes that in one picture Eilshemius "symbolically depicted himself as adrift, all alone, in a fragile bark rushed along by the fierce currents of wild, rapid waters which swirl around an island under a witching moon. It is a symbol of all futility and frustration under the Tantalus of beauty and romance. It tells of his endless efforts to land on the island of desire...