Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...recounted his Sindbadic journey. Between Croyden, which he had left three weeks ago without fuss, flurry or publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part...
Florida's Green: ". . . Florida is one of the old dry states ... as dry as the Sahara Desert . . ." (Florida's Green was laughed to his seat...
...lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...