Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Along came "Dakota" Clyde Jones, the cowboy who gave President Coolidge riding lessons on Horse Mistletoe last summer.* Mr. Jones invited President Coolidge to a rodeo in Manhattan. The President got out his enormous Wild West hat, put it on, went out on the lawn with Mr. Jones to be photographed, said: "That will be enough rodeo for me this time...
...blue spots to Alma Mater. Michigan dedicated a brand new back yard that cost $2,000,000, asking Ohio State over to play in it. Ohio State went home, morose because Michigan, boisterous host, won 21-0. Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0. Notre Dame, wild Irish children, rubbed Indiana...
...inhabited the Happy Hills country where they roamed the shady dells covered with the shining mahogany grass where the fizzbells bloomed or rambled in the glades where there was a musical tinkle dripping from the keg trees. The streams gurgled with ice water, the brandy bees buzzed over the wild eggnog vines and the rumroots grew juicy in the earth beneath the sherry berry thickets...
Last week in Termini Imerese, Sicily, a strange legal case began ?the trial of the 153 members of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. It was strange because the prisoners were brought into court in iron-barred cages and arranged around the room like wild animals, guarded by a small army of colorfully uniformed Carabinieri with fixed bayonets...
...question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried-up-river beds that teem with game, especially buffalo. Pictures of the upper Nile, of strange places such as Makwar, of the valley of the Dinder, of Rosaries flit before us with amazing rapidity. We are able to feel the heat of the sun and enthuse over...