Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physics at Clark University, Goddard started puttering with rockets in 1907. The Smithsonian Institution gave him $12,000 over a period of twelve years. When one of his contraptions blew up over Worcester, the terrified townsfolk forced him to desist. He moved to Camp Devens, later to the desert near Roswell, N. Mex. Since 1930 his expenses have been paid by the Guggenheims...
...Goodhue '37, Gaspar G. Bacon '37, William M. Hunt '36, David A. Barber '37, and Marshall Field Jr. '38. All roles have not been definitely assigned as yet and try-outs will continue during the next few afternoons to select those possessing outstanding histrionic ability. Director Arthur Hurley of "Desert Song" and "Little Accident" fame, has expressed himself as being well pleased with his material and Dance Director Bill Holbrook possesses a greatly enlarged chorus of the famous Hasty Pudding beauties, made possible by the largest number of tunes ever accepted for an annual production...
...settled in New Hampshire, contracted typhoid fever, had to move to the Adirondacks and finally to Arizona for his health. To intimates he admits that the particular rocky gorges that he has been putting in his imaginary landscapes for years exist in reality 50 miles beyond Phoenix where the desert joins the Bradshaw Mountains...
...favorite of such light-hearted Manhattan newshawks as Frank Ward O'Malley was Jacques Lebaudy, son of a French sugar tycoon, who in 1903 hatched a scheme for irrigating the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Jacques I, Emperor of the Sahara," fitted out an expedition to conquer his new province. Routed, he sailed for the U. S., established himself in Westbury, L. I., furnished copy on dull days by such stunts as uniforming and drilling an army of messenger boys and farmhands. In 1919 his "Empress" shot him dead...
...plot moves fast in the development of character and in the tautening of dramatic strains, but in locale it stays put on the edge of the great Arizona desert. Leslie Howard, an effete poet who believes himself an anachronism, a petrified stump i the midst of a petrified forest, comes upon a little bar-b-q roadhouse, the scene of all the action. There he finds Bette Davis, who confesses with an air of braggadocio passing for humility that she is nothing but a desert rat. At the same time she cannot forget that she is half French because...