Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred miles of desert in southern Oregon and northern Nevada, the largest single piece of unreserved public domain remaining. Every ten or fifteen miles the deserted hut of some overambitious homesteader was passed. Every 50 miles or so was a little shack where gasoline could be purchased. Herds of wild horses watched the party as it passed, galloping away in a billowing cloud of dust if the automobiles paused. Running with one of these herds was a lone mule. Here and there lay the dismembered bodies of colts slain by cougars. Now and again a jack rabbit would scamper across...
Sailing on the Paris, M. Caillaux was intercepted and honored by a British squadron off Plymouth. In the early dawn his terrified fellow passengers: rushed scantily clad upon deck. "Est-ce encore la guerre?" they demanded, wild-eyed. It was M. Caillaux receiving a thundering British salute of 21 guns...
...than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would...
...cubic feet of air to survive. When he is in the room these guides point him out as though he were a curiosity. I stood this as long as I could and then went to the door one day and said: 'If you look upon me as a wild animal, be kind to throw peanuts at me; but if you are really desirous of seeing me, come in and shake hands...
...together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion...