Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question can only be answered by a show of naked force. The French Cabinet last week answered it by ordering So first line French war planes to leave southern France, squadron after squadron, beginning October 27, for extensive maneuvers over all French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...first-rate football coaches stay in one place long enough to become an institution. Even fewer paint desert scenes in the Southwest. Robert Carl Zuppke of the University of Illinois does not claim to be a great painter though critics filled their reviews of his one-man show of landscapes last spring in Chicago's Palmer House with awed quotations from his rugged views on Art ("Art and football are very much alike"). More important to Robert Zuppke and a majority of the inhabitants of central Illinois is the fact that in the last 24 years Illinois teams have...
...library's attitude toward the undergraduate. Until the latter feels that the library is his, that attendants are there to help and not restrict him, he will coninue to regard the friendly and hospitable air of the Farnsworth Room as an oasis in an otherwise grim and inhuman desert...
Also at the University is "Flight From Glory" with Chester Morris and Whitney Bourne, dealing with the lives of outcast aviaters into whose world in the desert is suddenly thrust a woman. Most people are either arch admirers or ardent haters of Chester Morris. Others will find "Flight From Glory" a moderately exciting aero thriller...
...readers the fact that the three volumes of her Intimate Memories (Background, European Experiences, Movers and Shakers), most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies, were written at the urge of a moral purpose as lofty as any that ever moved a penitent at a revival meeting. Now in Edge of Taos Desert Mabel Dodge reveals how, in 1917, at Taos, N. Mex., she was converted by a ''spiritual therapy" which wiped out the effect of 38 years of neurotic floundering, beginning as a poor little rich girl in Buffalo and Europe, continuing steadily as she became a collector of writers...