Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor victory was naturally hailed with enthusiasm by that party and there followed a lot of wild talk about a dissolution of Parliament and a general election. In point of fact the borough elections have nothing to do with a national general election and cannot be fairly said to show a sentiment for a change of government, as local and not national issues are the primary considerations. On the other hand, it may reasonably be argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position...
...late talk at coast town barrooms, leapt up out of the racing mountains of the bay. A tremendous wind walked through the black towers of the rain, a hungry foam covered the teeth of the Irish rocks; all night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills. The next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood...
...things Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand homeless children--the "wild boys", the products of war and revolution--is a fact worthy of more than pictorial reproductions in the Sunday papers...
...longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold as wild and intangible as Bayliss is. In fact, it was when she thought Bayliss was consoling himself with a Bohemian girl that Elsa ran hysterically down the hill to him, and thus their marriage became a verity...
...Author. Martha Ostenso was born in Norway, brought to Winnipeg at the age of 3, to Brooklyn at 20, when she began writing. A little known book of verse, the prize-winning Wild Geese and The Dark Dawn are her last five years' productions. She lives and writes now, secluded in an old house on the New Jersey Palisades, makes yearly pilgrimages to Minnesota for family reunions and for material...