Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Thursday, October 4. Owen Lattimore will give an illustrated lecture on "The Desert Road to Turkestan" in the Fogg Museum at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is given under the Harvard Yen Ching Institute, and is open to members of the University...
...window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer. The abduction, done in a spirit of fun and platonically, comes close to Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole...
...common or garden camera men and some 15 reporters to crowd, without the aid of a shoe horn, into the reception room of her Hotel McAlpin-suite just before noon today, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously marcelled, dressed herself up like a Christmas tree, fluttered into the reception room, plumped herself down into an over-stuffed chair (which groaned slightly) and expressed some very favorable opinions of the Good Lord...
Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich nursed his chilblains. Jailbirds were glad, and school children, teachers, art students, functionaries at his Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They were glad because at last he was safe and recuperating from his five-year expedition in and around Tibet, in snow and desert. Where other expeditions dig and collect for science, he saw and painted for art. Snug with him at Darjeeling in northeast India last week were bales of his paintings. He has depicted the whole panorama of Tibet, scenery, people, customs. Some of his scenes are realistic; most are interpretative. A philosopher-painter, he prefers...
...trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals to two Arab chiefs for aid, and finds that one of them is his long-lost brother in disguise. Moreover, the two of them are Geste's Buddy and Hank. Third coincidence: with Geste's life at stake, Otis had promised to marry a half-caste dancing...