Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only Democratic candidate whose boom for the Presidential nomination is openly and actively under way. His enterprising political manager issued an "Underwood map" of the U. S., in which ten Southern states are marked "The Great White House Desert." These states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas) have 37% of the country's farms (valued at $15,000,000,000), and a population of 24,242,381. But in 135 years "The Great White House Desert" has had no President and only...
...White Desert. A primitive tragedy of jealousy on a lonely North Dakota farm condensed into four acts and five characters makes doubtful entertainment. At the end the theatregoer finds himself gazing on a corpse, two people desperate from unhappiness, another a trifle crazy, a fifth? very old. The theatregoer is inclined to wonder if life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross...
Observe, in support of the urge to vicarious immorality of the American nation, the following more or less popular plays: Rain, The Lullaby, Windows, Red Light Annie, Tarnish, The Dancers, Seventh Heaven, Chains, White Desert, A Lesson in Love, Casanova, The Crooked Square, Nobody's Business, The Shame Woman. All are at present discussing across New York footlights some element of sexual immorality...
...Andrews, accompanied by his wife Yvette, heads the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of National History. Leaving Peking last Spring they went to the railroad's end beyond Kalgan in the Khingan mountains. By motor they passed through the gateway of Inner Mongolia and across the Gobi Desert, 1,000 miles. Some went to Urga, present capital of Mongolia; Andrews and the main party turned south to the Altai ranges to fossil fields located last season when the skull of Baluchitherium, giant primitive rhinoceros, was discovered...
...themselves in the same case, that of having no books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed to Gutenberg and Alden and their successors. Immediately one rushes to the book-case to choose the most lasting friends, and perhaps hastens to lay in a stock of tobacco. For it is a truth that he who can read for pleasure...