Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute...
Little Johnny Jones. Of course, some day some producer with nihilistic tendencies will present a racehorse story in which the hero doesn't win. His losing will be due to the success of plots concocted by the vicious opposing owner. His girl, forthwith, will desert him and his horse refuse to recognize him socially...
...Harvard, about 15 years ago, there have been marked changes on Mars. The dark marking called Syrtis Major, or the hourglass, has developed an appendage on one side which makes its shape nearly square. A large area of about 100,000 square miles, formerly appearing pale yellow like a desert region, has changed to a dusky brown. Some of the so-called lakes which had almost disappeared, have become unusually dark lately. New canals have appeared and others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there...
Epilogue to the recent syndicated siege of " Books That Have Helped Me Most," "Books to Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary abominations. The questionees are as diverse as possible -George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, Edna Ferber, James Branch Cabell, Hugh Walpole are five of the number - and they certainly agitate the pedestals of many accepted literary deities...
...Nozzle King of America?a bewildered millionaire. Like most nozzle kings, he had his own individual plans for a Utopian International Commonwealth. So he chartered a ship and set out around the world. The ship's crew took to communism, seized the vessel, marooned the Podd party on a desert island?whence, after many semi-humorous misadventures, they returned to civilization, after discovering that the simple life is not so simple as it sounds. The book is mildly satiric and not unamusing. It could have been much funnier...