Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold stallion changed these women-the mother a little, the daughter much. Lou saw him in the mews where their own mounts were kept a horse of enormous power with dark, invisible flame coming out of him. In his wild jet eyes gleamed demoniac visions of an untamed animal time when there were no human lies about goodness, love, perfection, ideals. He was a celibate stallion and a mankiller. Lou found him a terrible deity who gazed questioning, threatening, untouchable out of another world, with ears like daggers on his naked head...
Heinrich Steinweg had a long brown beard that lay on his chest like a cloud guarding a secret. His son, Charles, also had a beard, but he was a wild, moonlighting fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder...
Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...
...ather slight, in fact, small of hand, small of feature, finely drawn lines, academic, refined, wearing glasses -a proper man for a writing desk, for an 18th Century escritoire even. But he has put in some few solid years lumber jacking, he has hunted and trapped in nearly every wild section of the world. "For my part, I am going to give the lion and the tiger a sporting chance. I shall hunt them with the bow and arrow...
...story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild, red, sly', as the little fox-has been misled by a rogue who, meeting the fox in the woods, destroys him also. Thus Janáĉek, now 70, at once the oldest and the most vital of all Czech composers, has turned back to romantic music with...