Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book Flung across House of Commons!", "Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!" Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial "Winnie" Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him-a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles...
...Baldwin Government last week appointed Mr. McNeill (now a well known economist and a retired editor of the St. James Gazette) to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Since Winston Churchill is Chancellor of the Exchequer, it becomes the duty of "Wild Irish McNeill" to slip quietly in and out of the Churchillian sanctum bearing facts and figures...
...that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy, and unlike the Scandinavian treatment of such a theme it is not stark tragedy. It is simply a wild-animal tale, effectively told...
What Price Glory, They Knew What They Wanted, Desire Under the Elms, The Firebrand, Dancing Mothers, Mrs. Partridge Presents, The Fall Guy, The Youngest, Minick, Wild Birds?these ten plays in slightly condensed form make up the bulk of the volume...
Today's game marks the second encounter in recent years when Harvard has started with its full available strength against the Bruin. Ten years ago today a team of Crimson substitutes defeated Brown, 16 to 7. A year later Brown, with the great Pollard running wild, rolled up 21 points against the Harvard reserves. It was the Crimson policy to start a substitute team against Brown, in order to save the first string men for the Yale encounter...