Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
...Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
When Two-Gun-Man Ziga Vuciterna looked up from his work there was no other living soul to be seen in court. Wild-eyed but no longer violent the Dum-Dum Murderer reversed both his pistols in his hands, turning them upon himself, and stood in this peculiar attitude until bailiffs plucked up courage to come in and arrest him and the judge crawled out from under his bench...
...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...
...WITH THEM-Peadar O'Donnell-Putnam ($2.50). Simple, powerful narrative of Irish islanders, in poignant detail of workaday living, and occasional drama of the wild surrounding...