Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last fortnight a battered flivver joggled and clattered over a desert road leading into Tonopah, Nev. Two dusty boys of 19 sat on the seat. They talked now and then but not much. When they reached Tonopah they took some heavy, dirty bags out of their car and locked them up. That evening they walked around the town, which is one big mining camp, showing chunks of glittering rock to the oldtimers. The chunks glittered so brightly and looked so rich that the oldtimers said: "Hell, that ain't gold!" The boys went to bed dubious...
...will desert them, leave them flat, although if hurts them. Because they really aren't intelligent (gent gent...
...President vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Telegrams swarmed into the White House-most of them congratulated the President; no one threatened to assassinate him. Meanwhile, on a horse in San Marcos Desert Camp, Ariz., sat Frank O. Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). Originally romantic, the Crusoe theme has passed through many literary phases and now emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting...
...sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY...