Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This poster was placarded throughout Paris, appealing to voters to tear up their ballots and to the Orléanists to desert Philippe, Due d'Orléans, and rally to the standard of Louis, Prince de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XVII...
...procession with the mother of his late servant, Kurt Neubauder, who was killed in the "beer hall brawl," resting upon his arm. At the grave the General said: "I promise to devote the remainder of my life to the cause for which this man fell. I shall never desert...
...after ten years of preparation, Charles Montagu Doughty, poor, not in the best of health, alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself...
...mountainous strength of its own, characteristically craggy, occasionally monotonous, not easy reading-but once made one's own, a permanent enrichment to the mind. As for its truth, Colonel T. E. Lawrence* says in his preface: " It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert . . . here you have the desert . . . the true Arabia with its smells and dirt . . . its nobility and freedom...
...bring their pets when they want to. Cizek's genius is in knowing how to keep his hands off. He encourages, suggests, advises rarely, but always the children draw and paint only what they feel. "If it were possible," says he, "I would have my school on a desert island in mid-Atlantic." He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization. As a result the children produce works of unspoiled vigor, naive insight and not a little humor. They are singularly untroubled by the isms and vagaries of modernist...