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Word: wilds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild, Fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...These wild and fantastic rumors were sent out by a reputable news gathering association, acting, of course, in perfect good faith, but ignoring the fact that it is never safe to accept, as true, stories from one Balkan country about the internal affairs of another, and that all Balkan news coming out of Vienna should be regarded with great suspicion. The same agency that sent out the Vienna-Belgrade stories had its own correspondent in Greece who could have readily verified or disproved them, and who would have undoubtedly sent them in himself if they had been founded on fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Besides the liquor smuggled, the Federal men detected and sent back to Canada some 200 aliens who had tried to enter the U. S. disguised as "razorbacks," "alligators," lion-tamers, acrobats, elephant-scrubbers, wild persons from Borneo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Circus | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...lived. Years have passed since he first won the hearts of shrewd peasants in the suburbs of Tarragona by three peculiarities. He would work without pay. He loved to tell stories to children. And to toss "Poor José" an old guitar was the prelude to an evening of wild, haunting melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Poor Jose | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

DIAMOND LIL?Starring the wild and woolly Mae West (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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