Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold. The scene is New Mexico; the characters are the same daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used merely to give light for night digging...
...piston in a well-oiled cylinder. But M. Citroën had not counted upon native bullets or, if he had, he had counted upon the sky-blue soldiers of France to stop them. Turbulent Moors disliked the headless, legless camels that were to scoot across the desert at 45 miles an hour, declared an unholy war upon them. French officers warned M. Citroën that they could not guarantee security to tourists in the desert-finis. Sadly, painfully, reluctantly, M. Citroën announced the abandonment of his scheme and presumably the greater part...
...much for the purely material considerations. Unfortunately, however, there is another side which cannot be overlooked. "Broadway" is a great national treasure which must be maintained at all costs. And what would become of Broadway if George M. Cohen should desert it--even for a few hours a week...
They crossed the Kansas cornlands and the badlands and the Rockies. Hauled by panting locomotives, they crossed the desert and crawled up into the Sierras. Then they dropped down to the ribbon of shore at the edge of the Pacific. There they rested-those football playing men of Missouri, in Los Angeles, City of the Angels, until Christmas Day, when they girded up their loins and went into a stadium to do holiday violence to the men of Southern California...
...bitter end, with pass after desperate pass. With a minute to play, a Californian fumbled and Halfback Tuttle of Missouri scooped, dodged, tore off for a touchdown. Then Referee Walter Eckersall finally held up his hand, saying "Time!" and the legend was telegraphed back over the Sierras, the desert, the Rockies, the badlands and the cornlands to Missouri: "University of Southern California 20, University of Missouri...