Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused her to desert a promising cinema and stage career...
...Flying mail between Nanking and Ber lin, a plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a landing, a band of tribesmen shot at them, drove them up and away again. The searchers saw no sign of the stranded pilots...
...Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
They divided the last sandwiches; Mrs. Beanlands and Shap trudged off through the desert to find help; Jimmy sat and waited. They never came back. After several days Jimmy nearly despaired. Then clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might...
...Author is reputed to know more about Indians of the Southwest than any other U. S. woman. She lived 16 years in the California desert, working like an Indian woman, studying their lore. In 1891 she married Stafford W. Austin. When her only child died she began to write. For a time she was one of the Carmel, Calif, literary colony, then built a house at Santa Fe, N. M. Between literary jobs she goes on what she calls "jam-borees," makes enormous quantities of jam, jellies, pickles for herself & friends. Her flower-garden is famed. Other books: Isidro...