Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...
Solomon, when he was a youngster, he remembers, sowed his wild oats. What, though, does he say when he grows old? He says: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink. . . . This time the question was: Could anything more arrantly pagan be suggested to sincere Christians...
...should send soldiers to seize Chief Justice Taft and deport him as a Communist. The explanation, as usual, is that Dictator Carlos Ibanez is again finding his despotism over Chile threatened and is getting rid of his enemies under a plausible excuse. Among those arrested who might by a wild stretch of the imagination he called "Red" was Senor Luis Humberto Matis, "The Chilean Gompers," Secretary of the Chilean Federation of Labor...
Everyday there appear on the newsstands new, gay-colored magazines with pictures of pretty young ladies gracing their covers, Daily there arrive also fresh stocks of somber, dignified-looking periodicals with a position and wild-eyed, excited magazines with a Cause...
Specific Effects. Scalpers are now free to charge any price they wish for theatre tickets; but the larger Manhattan agencies immediately announced that they would stick to the 50c fee, "unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...