Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The book is about several Forsytes and several more of their connections. Chiefly, there is Fleur Mont, collector of people-celebrated people, very modern people. In her collection was Wilfrid Desert, poet, who became much too fond of her. Here was a problem. Fleur wanted him 'in the collection. On the other hand, she did not love him even as much as she loved her husband, Michael, Wilfrid's best friend. She tried for a long while to eat her cake and have it too. Wilfrid would deliver ultimata-demanding that she yield "now or never." Somehow...
...Warrior. Doyle's first experience with war was on the banks of the Nile, following a health trip to Egypt which involved him in various forms of desert adventure. The Boer War brought him to South Africa as an army surgeon, gave him a good taste of the unpleasanter forms of conflict, including work in a hospital improvised during an enteric epidemic. The town could be smelt rather than seen. The Great War found him roaming about the front-line trenches-French, Australian, Italian. After the Boer War and during the Great War, Doyle devoted a good deal...
...vast uncharted Arabian desert are sixteen different states.* Some of these countries move whenever their inhabitants decide to strike tents. Some, again, are half settled-that is to say, the inhabitants roam about and return to a fixed settlement. Others are more or less fixtures. In a country of this nature, where whole states are moved on the backs of camels, lies the cradle of Islam, and that cradle was rocked last week by the terrible hand of Emir Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud...
...favorable place as regards prestige for the Democratic nomination in 1928. But Smith changed his mind and the probable reason of his changing was this: He was a vote-getter, but he did not control the Democratic machine in New York; the machine said to him simply: "If you desert us in this crucial year, we will never go back to you when you want us." So Smith agreed to run again for Governor...
...Union of Naples. He also had an interview with the King of Spain, and later was one of the speakers on the stage of the San Cairo opera house, the largest in the world. Professor Grandgent then returned to this country and spent the summer at Mount Desert Island, Maine. While there he wrote some essays and several poems, and also read over the proofs of a book of essays which he is about to publish, entitled "Getting a Laugh, and Other Essays...