Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...babbled, "America is a fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however, that I shall accept an invitation to join a French expedition which is going to Timbuktu, crossing the Sahara desert in caterpillar automobiles...
Marcel Mouillot spent a month painting the desert, the Egyptian villages. Then he shipped East again. In a hurricane in the Indian Ocean he was nearly swept overboard, had one foot seriously injured. He spent weeks on the little known island of Reunion in the South Indian Ocean and explored the islands off Madagascar in a pirogue. Last May he was back in Paris and held his first important one-man show. Critics, especially M. Brummer, enthused...
...Manchester Guardian quoted "the editor of one of the earliest of South African newspapers" on how to bag lions in the Kalahari Desert, as follows: ''The Kalahari is principally composed of sand and lions. First sift the sand through a large sieve, when only the lions will remain. These you place in a bag carried for the purpose...
...keep himself and his wife (Katherine Alexander) alive in a third-rate hotel room on the Boulevard Montparnasse and to keep his son in an "advanced" school in England, where he is being "cured" of a mother-fixation. The U. S., he declares, is "a spiritual vacuum, a cultural desert." Claire Shelby wants to go back "where her roots are"; more important, she wants to have her child. To stay in the next room come two old friends, Waldo Lynde (Donald MacDonald) and his promiscuous wife Susie (Millicent Green). Waldo is satisfied with life as a U. S. lawyer, thinks...
...hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell, Floridan organizer of the Matto Grosso pack, had confidence in U. S. dogs' abilities...