Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Buffalo to Washington in President McKinley's funeral train, Mark Hanna exploded: "I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States...
Until they die, dying must remain for people a wild and impossible conjecture. Most people, with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears. It was a thing that made a little three-year-old girl in Juliette, Ga., lie shaking in bed at night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry...
Philosophy 14b, a half-course in the second half-year on English Philosophy from, Bacon to Hume, will be given by Dr. Wild...
...head for a Justice of the Peace in a neighboring town in his little roadster. Superintendent Sweeney hears of it, and Cannon-Ball Casey is told to break all records in getting to Oxford ahead of the eloping pair. In rapid succession the audience is offered a limited "running wild". . . . . Old "Isobel" proving her worth . . . . a smash up in which a load of hay plays a major part . . . . a record lowered . . . a marriage almost thwarted. Almost, mind you. Leave the climax to Casey and Luke. They do everything but "Tell It To Sweeney...