Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Ministers, however, firmly refused to desert Poincaré, preferring to be ousted from their Parties rather than from the Cabinet...
...Although it ill becomes profound commentary to point with pride to the centripetal optics of Mr. Ben Turpin, it must be said that his present opus is sniffing at the heels of true Art. Mr. Turpin's burlesque places a permanent tombstone over the twin-Bedouin story of the desert...
Advices to the Pioneer of Allahabad, India, stated that more than 1,000 persons were killed by seismic shocks in the little Persian town of Turbat-i-Haidari in the province of Khorasan which forms part of the great Iranian Desert plateau. The sheets lasted several hours and it is feared that many villages adjacent to Turbat-i-Haidari were devastated with a consequent further loss of life...
Instead of using the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights, King Feisal of Iraq will fly over the Arabian desert from Bagdad to Amman in seven hours to meet his brother Emir Abdullah of Transjordania in a political conference...
...unfortunate that the first play of the collection, "Mirage" by George M. P. Baird, should be a typical example of the all too well-known "hokum" of the Indian and the White man in the "silent purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell...