Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This he does, with a knife and a small stick. Then, having provided at least one of the natives of Fanua with a divinity, he leaves the island. He is sorry to desert his only convert, but hearing Lueli as he babbles happy confidences into the wooden ear of God, Mr. Fortune decides that he has done the wisest thing...
Acrid Deputy Cachin, per contra, is under sentence for "in citing desertion." soldiers of the Republic to desertion." However, the it was only to the Moroccan war (TIME, May 11, War 1925, et from seq.) and not the World War from which M. Chachin exhorted soldiers to desert. So he too has been . . . allowed almost two years grace...
...unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...
...Thirsty desert travelers often glimpse sparkling oases which vanish on closer approach, are found to be mirages, optical illusions, frauds...
Fighting Love (Jetta Goudal, Henry B. Walthall, Victor Varconi). A young Italian beauty marries her father's friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...