Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noble Nordic of Richard Harding Davis fame who tamed wild generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...
After the speeches were over, there was a wild stampede to the platform, where scores of students fought eagerly over the tattered remains of Mr. Collier's cartoons...
Miss Ferguson seems least at fault. A trifle less lissome, perhaps, than in her earlier days, she is still the corporeal substance of a vision; still plays with the grace and subtlety that made her famous. Mr. Molnar wrote an intricately interesting study of a woman wild to jump the hedge of life's convention. He failed to set his study in a sufficiently decisive dramatic narrative. The woman's character is there in all its broad sweep and tiny detail. Who cares? The tale is tiresome. The Frohman production was surprisingly uneven for such an astute organization...
...convey the information officially to the German Government. Germany, because of the publication of the French and British Cabinet decision against evacuation, had already heard the news, was indignant. Practically all the German press, irrespective of party affiliation, joined in condemning the action. In Monarchist circles, there was wild talk of. Germany being justified in not working the Experts' Plan...
...satisfied. He insisted that the scandal was a much more extensive affair, that it had not been properly investigated. He declared that the World Series should be called off, that there was crookery abroad. Commissioner Landis paid no attention to Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson called Commissioner Landis a "wild-eyed crazy...