Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...participation in football just as it stands today or why the undergraduate bodies of the colleges should lose their enthusiasm simply because the great American people over-emphasize the annual competition. Toreadors have to eater to the Spanish public; football players don't in America. Here the public goes wild for a brief period, but it is all forgotten before the hockey season is under way. If the players have been able to keep their feet on the ground, no one has been the worse for the wear...
...That, sir, sounds like the roar of a wild beast, not the utterance of a man. That sounds like the voice of hell turned loose into the wholesome atmosphere of the earth...
...base on balls, a passed ball, a wild pitch, and three errors were the Bowdoin contributions to their downfall in the first. The Crimson nine added a stolen base and four hits, so that when the dust cleared away, the score read Harvard 6, Bowdoin...
...Chauncey took second, and Tobin scored a moment later on a passed ball. After Chase struck out, Sullivan and the wind combined to give Harvard another hit and run, and Barbee's single scored Sullivan after the latter had pilfered the keystone sack. Barbee took second on a wild heave, but he languished there when Jones, up for the second time, was erased on a grounder...
...much to be said against zoos, but I am speaking of the caging of animals as a private enterprise. . . . It is queer that curiosity leads to this . . . cruelty. It isn't, I suppose, for an Englishman to appeal to Americans to abate an abuse, but. . . to deprive wild animals of their freedom is a dreadful thing . . . a slow death...