Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into the desert 1,000 mi. north of Adelaide the Australian Government was sending squads of engineers last week to build four landing fields at 100 mi. intervals between Alice Springs and The Granites. In The Granites, a wild, desolate territory, infested by savage blacks and savage insects, diggers had struck gold. Six expeditions were pushing toward the strike by truck, tractor, horseback, camel and by airplane. Every available ship was in demand to rush in food & water, rush out yellow dust...
...Lilyan Tashman). As sometimes happens in such cases, there are moments in Scarlet Dawn so well imagined that they make the rest of it seem even more shoddy than it is; the one, for instance, in which Nikiti's wife polishes his boots when he is preparing to desert her, so that he can do it in style...
...Mail (Universal), for the first time, the cinema regards aviation as a reality rather than as a dazzling myth. It is a first-rate report on happenings in and about Desert Airport, where Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) is the mild competent manager and Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is his swashbuckling star pilot. While Talbot dallies with a pilot's widow (Lillian Bond), Miller has to leave his girl (Gloria Stuart) to fly the mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm...
...fastened on them with a bulldog grip. Maid in Waiting began it; Flowering Wilderness continues what bids fair to be an over-lengthy serial. Dinny Cherrell, too young to wed in the first book, makes a bold bid for it this time. Unfortunately the swain she picks, one Wilfrid Desert, is far from being the kind of vertebra that fits into England's backbone. First and bad enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...