Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wretched pass from Ketchum to Dunn went wild and the alert end, ever watchful for a loose ball, snatched it and tore down the field with the whole Yale team scrambling for him like a pack of angry wolves. White outraced them all, but Yale's captain, Howe, was after him and after 60 yards of White's dash, Howe, in a final desperate jump, tackled the Tiger on the five-yard line and the terrific impact sent them both into the mud. White slid over the goal line on his face...
...story. Example: Two years ago a delegation of foreign hotel men visited the Commodore. Why not, thought Mr. Bowman, show them a typical U. S. spectacle? So he put up a tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...
...confine my remarks to aviation." The next day he flushed in angry silence at public comment and curiosity about his plans. Finally in Miami he said: "I believe the announcement is sufficient acknowledgement of the engagement." But it really was romantic. The country gurgled its delight. The tabloids went wild with headlines about "Lindy and Anne," " 'We' now a Trio," etc. etc. Arthur Brisbane pontificated: "It is pleasing to know that the chain of Lindbergh's ancestry stretching back across the ocean to powerful men in the North is not to be broken." Instead of sharing...
...princes have no part or lot in such wild political theories," counseled the Maharaja of Alwar...
...four minutes left to play, Giddens stick-handled his way down the center lane and, as he reached the University Club defensemen, flipped the rubber back of him to E. T. Putnam '30, who scored on a sharply-angled shot. From then until the final bell, there was a wild scramble in front of the Crimson cage, as the five-man University Club attack vainly attempted to overcome Harvard's winning lead...