Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep low company because he could not afford better. "I was the companion of seamen, chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...
Further misfortune befell Little Red Riding Harvard. This time the grandmother was Bruin Brown. A wild backward pass from Acting-Centre Robb of Harvard flew over Halfback Mather's head, was snared by Keefer, visiting halfback. Forward passes brought Brown near the Harvard goal. Klump clumped over. Spectators at this game eyed with interest the Brown centre, Eckstein, vendor of blood*! Score: Brown 7, Harvard...
...died in it, the 13,000,000 civilians who perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...
Harvard enthusiasm which has been rising to a fever heat this week, culminated yesterday afternoon in a wild march to the Stadium, in frenzied shouting and yelling once there, and in a furious snake dance all the way back to Harvard Square. Captain Greenough's team will meet the Bulldog an inspired combination, if they catch the contagion of enthusiasm which is raging through the college...
...wild, mysterious tale of India is this, sprinkled with the oriental wisdom of Tsiang Samdup...