Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FLOWERING WILDERNESS" is not only the love story of Dinny Cherrell, the "Maid-in-Waiting," and Wilfred Desert, the poet, it is also the old story of individual judgement in conflict with that of society, and clearly illustrates the saying that there are more than three sides to a triangle. There is a fourth side--the inside. The triangular situation about which Mr. Galsworthy has written such a splendid story is one of singular interest. Each of the three people concerned, Dinny--intelligent, lonely and spirited; Wilfred, a poet, proud, sensitive, rebellious of convention; Jack Muskham... to whom good form...
...Forsyte Saga," and the best thing Mr. Gals-worthy has witted since then. Like those books, it provokes such an interest in its characters that one cannot bear to put it aside for a moment. No matter what one's personal reactions are to Wilfred's recantation in the desert, to Dinny's falling in love with him despite everyone's disapproval, to Jack Muskham's meddling in their affairs to picture any other denouement. The answer to the riddle apparently is that "the leopard cannot change his spots...
...From a portrait by Eric Kennington. Reproduced from the limited edition of Revolt in the Desert published in London by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Courtesy of Duttons...
...Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into...
...words of it at one sitting, between sunrise and sunrise. Published and distributed privately, the book cost him some £10,000. To pay off his debt he made a popular abridgment (in two nights, with the help of two other airmen), the best-selling Revolt in the Desert. Lawrence himself never made a penny out of either book but some of his friends did. He sent a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom to his good, hard-up friend Poet Robert Graves, with a note, "Please sell when read." Graves sold it for £300. Offered a French translation...