Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record to show that there was no proof that Judge English had committed any crime. It is more serious, said he, to impeach a man than to convict of crime. Without substantial proof of crime, there can be no impeachment. He pleaded with the House to remember "the wild pulsations of a father's heart," not to "tear the ermine from this, old father," to remember that...
...came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name of his lady. Back he came with the necklace surrendered to him for the insane simplicity of his request, back to wed his Dulcinea who, kindly for a courtesan, sent him away, back into the forest to die. Florence Easton...
Last year Harvard was victimized by a certain Mr. Dunton, advertised as a rising star of the new school, whose "Wild Asses" would already be4 forgotten if it were not selling for fifty cents in bookstores on the Square. And now Cornell Woolrich, a Columbia undergraduate, has written of Broadway's night life as typified by her "gigolos" and "gigolettes." Just what Mr. Woolrich Knows about Broadway's night life it id difficult to determine. He says so very little that has not been said before, and very much more expressively in "the Great white Way." "Flaming Passions" and other...
April 13--"The Wild Duck" at the Repertory. Second return engagement of Ibsen's piece. Ruth Taylor takes Blanche Yurka's place...
...Mifflin). Connubial conventions go glimmering in Wallace Irwin's Mated (Putnam) and Reginald Wright Kauffman's Free Love (Macaulay). There is a full-blooded tale called Carib Gold (Bobbs-Merrill) by onetime U. S. All-Around Athletic Champion Ellery H. Clark, and a new Alaskan tale, Child of the Wild (Cosmopolitan) by Edison Marshall (The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges, Seward's Folly...