Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaintively forecasts is a questionable assumption. All the important universities have been forced to make up heavy deficits in the last few years: while the effort has caused them considerable discomfort, none have fallen. Yale, firmly entrenched behind her endowment, doss not cut an impressive figure in violently crying, "Wolf," in the abashed faces of the New Haven tax collectors...
...GRAY WOLF-H. C. Armstrong-Minton, Balch...
...vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...
...Wolf Island in the Mississippi River last week trekked Denver M. Wright, frustrated St. Louis lion hunter (TIME, Oct. 17 et seq.), with two circus lions, 20 newshawks, cameramen, native beaters and his 14-year-old son Charles. For three nights the party huddled miserably inside a barbed-wire stockade while icy rain beat down. Hunter Wright waited for skies to clear, said he: "They might catch cold and die." Then the lions were released to roam the underbrush, regain their native ferocity. Instead they sat howling mournfully in the mud outside the camp. Next day an hour...
...play deals with "some intimate and hitherto unchronicled chapters in the early life of Saint Mara of Trabia," a Croatian woman whose name appears on no church calendar. As the saint. Actress Menken is compelled to choose between a life with a robber called Kristan the Wolf or with a secular gentleman named Josef. The secular gentleman wins out, and toward the close of the play one sees Saint Mara working miracles upon "a man with a twisted foot," "a man with a curved spine" and "a boy with devils"-the latter being Ethel Barrymore's boy John Drew...