Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed investigation into his office. "My only answer to that," said he, "is the smile on my face." By the time he reached Kansas City, he had evolved a neat retort to any suggestion that he was fleeing New York. Said he: "They can find me in the desert if they want to investigate me. . . . It's funny, isn't it, that the first investigation of me should come when I'm out of town. I wonder why they didn't investigate me while I was in New York?" And at Dallas, Texas he was laughing out loud...
...outdone, Chicago had its "independent" exhibit last week. The No-Jury Society of Artists showed 400 canvases. Reporters shook their heads over two pictures, Quaking Aspens and Desert Plains by Robert C. Zuppke, football coach of the University of Illinois...
...church. Others have been canny in their personal affairs as well. Unfortunate was the bucket-shopping of Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, May 26 et seq.) But remarkable were the financial coups of Brigham Young who took unto himself the great monopolies of the Desert, tolls on gates and roads, timber rights. The late Benjamin ("King") Purnell of the House of David, at Benton Harbor, Mich, across Lake Michigan from Zion City, took unto himself and his Queen Mary the rights to some $1,000,000 worth of his followers' properties until 1927 when...
...Golea, roses streak the edge of the desert. For this reason tourists in Algeria often see el Golea, but last week the crowds were natives and there were a lot of them. Bets were up in all the native villages along the route; Governor-General Jules Carde had motored from Algiers. At his signal a long line of 17 dromedaries moved forward, at first evenly, then in bunches. They started north along the way to Ghardaïa, running in the soft sand beside the motor road...
...night the racers lie down, each rider against the warm back of his mount. The desert is cold at night, as though chilled by the moon which gives the wind-molded sand the color of ice. No use to force a camel in a long race; what he makes the first day he will lose the second. At Ghardaïa, the Mezabits rode out to meet the first camel which, heavy-footed, appeared on the desert's rim. The rider was one Mohamed Ahabi, the dromedary "Fleet as Sirocco." The pair had covered...