Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years he roamed about the West, either shooting at bandits with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...
...third. Connell came running in again on the next pitched ball, but this time Cole hit a foul tip that was just wide enough to escape Chauncey's ready glove. On the next ball, however, Connell's mighty efforts to reach home proved successful due to Barbee's wild pitch. Cole and Sanford then struck...
Barbee then flied to Cole and it was two out. Burns subsequent tap was a sacrifice that went through to Beeker, Penn third-baseman. Beeker attempted to get Donaghy at the plate but his throw was a little wild. The result was that Donaghy scored and Burns was safe at first. Chase walked and things looked brighter for the Crimson hopes. Sanford, however, caught Burns napping at second base in a quick throw to Thompson...
Even from this, the U. S. correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...handers of the Worcester nine, off the mound. The Crudaders' two runs were both scored by Harrell, their shortstop, who hit a home run on the first ball pitched in the game, and who drove out a triple in the sixth, on which W. B. Jones '28 made a wild throw, allowing the runner to make the circuit of the bases...