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The Wild Goose is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Albert Capellani and written by Gouverneur Morris. The film stars Mary MacLaren , Holmes Herbert , Dorothy Bernard , Joseph W. Smiley , Norman Kerry , and Rita Rogan.
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Greylag goose, or wild goose; The Wild Goose, a hand-written newspaper created in 1867 by Fenian prisoners; HMS Wild Goose, a 1942 Royal Navy Black Swan-class sloop; USS Wild Goose, a US Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1920; USS YMS-328, later Wild Goose, a US Navy minesweeper converted to a yacht, once owned by John Wayne
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
Wild-goose chase, a pursuit of something unattainable or non-existent, such as in a fool's errand or snipe hunt; The Wild Goose Chase, a comedy stage play by John Fletcher, first published 1621; The Wild Goose Chase, an American comedy-drama by Cecil B. DeMille; A Wild Goose Chase a 1918 American film; The Wild Goose Chase, a Van Beuren cartoon
The cartoon starts with a trio of frogs with banjos, singing the song Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella.Other creatures in the wild are shown during the rainy weather. The scene, moments later, turns to a boy cat and a
The Wild Goose Number 1, page 1. The Wild Goose: A Collection of Ocean Waifs was a hand-written newspaper created in late 1867 by Fenian prisoners aboard Hougoumont, the last ship to transport convicts to Australia. Seven issues of the newspaper were produced, and each issue was carefully laid out and decorated by hand.