Word: desertions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army sgt. would desert in the face of the enemy-Grant's action in going after the temple of gold can be called nothing else from a military point of view...
Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses...
...donation was arranges her by Michael P. Grace '40 of the Independents. The sand, which filled one of Sullivan's trucks, was intended to symbolize the victory which the Jews had won over the desert in the construction of Tel Aviv. On the sides of the truck were fastened placards which read "Up From the Desert" and "Now From the Wastelands." It was parked opposite the hotel during the dance...
When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...
...Spezia. France virtually doubled her mobilization speed, decided to call up 80,000 recruits in April instead of October. Britain took the first step toward conscription (see p. 16). From Germany came alarming reports of troop movements: five new mechanized divisions had been created, two whole divisions, equipped for "desert operations," passed over the Brenner Pass into Italy headed presumably for Italian Africa, trucks were requisitioned and "spring" maneuvers were scheduled to start February...