Word: wildwoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wildwood, N. J., a fish hawk whose nest was near the Country Club fell intc the habit "of soaring low over the golf links and clutching up a white ball now and then. Flapping slowly back to its nest, it would add the balls to a growing collection and sit on them, content. Perhaps it was the sport of capturing; perhaps the instinct for collecting (as crows and magpies will collect shiny or sparkling trash...
...treated the reporters, and their myriad constituents, so much like intelligent beings that by and large the despatches from Grande Anse were quiet and sensible, with very little trash about the social "incongruity" between the bride and groom except where headline writers wrote: "WILDWOOD LENA," "DAUGHTER OF FOREST," "HUMBLE SCION...
Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
Since the Scopes trial, many people have felt (unjustly enough) that their eyes had surely been opened to the condition of things in Tennessee-a wildwood state, populated by bearded illiterates whose ears still rumble with echoes of the shooting at Bull Run, whose Bible is a shotgun, whose primer is a bottle and who believe in Santa Claus. Last week Vanderbilt University (in Nashville) made an announcement which somewhat corrected this impression. Trustees and alumni, having completed their semicentennial celebration, started a nationwide drive to raise $4,000,000 for the department of science. Said Chancellor James H. Kirkland...