Word: desertion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home at the edge of the Arizona desert near Tucson, 79-year-old General "Black Jack" Pershing, straight as a guardsman and looking like John Barrymore in his prime, read the revelations of Secretary Lansing, called in reporters to make some of his own. Said he: on Oct. 30, 1918, twelve days before the Armistice, he had argued against it, had told the Allied Supreme War Council that they might lose the chance to make a permanent peace on secure principles if they let Germany negotiate then. He had wanted Germany to be forced to lay down arms unconditionally. Foch...
...this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing three to six deep. The reviewing party was an hour and a half making its circuit. Next day General Weygand inspected the Suez Canal defenses...
...Americans of this second westward trek are still fighting the desert, the mountains, hunger, thirst, death. Tame Indians stand and wonder at them. The Indians these modern pioneers fight are California deputies who resent the invasion of their State as much as earlier red men resented earlier whites. These are in a better position to show resentment...
...pantomime as Ma Joad burns her box of letters and keepsakes before starting west-a silent scene that is broken by two meaningful words: "I'm ready." It is in the three tense worried faces reflected in the windshield of the jaloppy as the family crosses the weird desert at night. Above all, it is in the ironically recurring song of the mockingbird, heard in the distance as the family first sights California's orchards...
...office poison" is a charge not likely to be hurled again at Marlene Dietrich now that she has stopped wandering about the desert, strewn with ethereal white veils, and has made the transition to saloon hostess in the good old American Wild West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture...