Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
Moose. The second topic which stirred Swedes, last week, was wild moose. These mighty, antlered game were alarmingly reported to be browsing upon and trampling down thousands of aspen saplings in the province of Smaland. Aspen is a wood much used for making match sticks; and match making is a major industry of Sweden. Therefore the wild moose tales alarmed...
Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...
Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
Sued for Divorce. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, famed onetime clown; by Doris Dean, cinemactress; charging "another wild party"; in Los Angeles...