Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around to pick up a floating case of whiskey. The Narcissus has to be sold to pay the damages. Annie-by this time estranged from her son because she will not desert her inconvenient husband -is hired to stay on as captain...
...fairly obvious. The mass of our citizens have not followed the progress of the President. He moves too fast and too violently for them. So they are judging him purely by immediate results. If results are bad in the next couple of months, the people are liable to desert their leaders. The President knows this and is after quick success, for the sake of the larger hopes...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
Against the sands of the Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
...Southwest Harbor on Mt. Desert Island Mrs. Roosevelt popped in to spend a brief hour with her husband. Then she motored on toward Campobello, N. B., the President's destination. Son James took the Bernadou back to Boston to vote as a delegate in Massachusetts' Repeal convention. Scheduled to return on the Bernadou was Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, just back from the Geneva Arms Conference. He and the President would talk things over as the Amberjack II cruised north into colder weather...