Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...
...cried out: "Go ahead and ruin the bill!" Subsequently the group which had been defeated in seeking to prevent reduction in surtaxes, retain estate taxes, retain tax-publicity, etc., broke loose and, with support of not a few regulars, added $100,000,000* to the tax cut in one wild afternoon. Towards evening Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania suggested adjournment: "We should stop now after this excessive storm." And so they waited until the next day when passions had cooled...
Once there was a dance called the Chicago, a graceless thing of scissoring hips, jutting elbows and wild necks. It is gone now, its very memory erased by a lithe barbaric jungle shiver, to which the gentle city of Charleston lent its name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that...
...still with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...Wild cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...