Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would...
...Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned...
...paper. Now, thanks to recording machines, music can be engraved directly on the surface of wax discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
...often seems querulous, disdainful, frequently degenerating to an unpleasant pose. But his last letters, written during the War, when his old friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved! We kill each other by the hundred thousand...