Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neill might wear the Irish crown. "The Irish King might even be a Spaniard. There is the Duke of Tetuan, for instance. He is The O'Neill, a descendant of the great O'Neill who fled to the Continent with the flight of the Wild Geese,* if you will recall your history. Irishmen then settled in Spain and France and Austria, and some of them became great soldiers, and their descendants, genealogically at least, we consider Irish. "It might be one of these whom we would invite to be King; but the simplest way would be a dual...
...Your recent article on Mr. Dunton's 'Wild Asses' is an interesting example of what philologians would call 'misplaced epithets.' Cambridge has a right to feel honored when a Wellesley newspaper places it in that category of places to which journalism so rarely applies biblical verses. But we regret that Wellesley has already imbibed the spirit of Dr. Moffatt's new version of the Bible. Dr. Moffatt felt justified in changing 'ark' to 'barge' and 'lice' to 'mosquitoes' so that the Bible again might become a living document. Is it by the same logic, then, that the Wellesley newspaper uses...
...newspapers of the country have received the satire with attitudes varying from disgust to enthusiasm. The New London Times condemns it as "juvenile sophistication." while the Boston Advertiser hails it as a "wild rebel fling." But all opposition notwithstanding more copies of the H. B. S. number have been ordered than can be filled at present. Hence the new edition...
...Enter to grow in Wisdom'! Come, Blunderbrats and Wild Asses Bask in the beams from learning's light And be culturally sunburned, if you can't be tanned...
...Wild Asses" is described in a preliminary announcement as a "novel of undergraduate life at Harvard University". The situations are all laid before the familiar background of the Yard and Harvard Square. The author takes up "parties, love affairs, crap games and philosophic discussions," whether in that order or not is left unexplained by the announcement...