Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UNDERSTANDING HEART? Peter B. Kyne?Cosmopolitan ($2)* In that magazine-story paradise, the California redwood forests, where the sheriffs have hearts of gold, the women shoot like the late Annie Oakley and the manly forest rangers croon Kipling, Author Kyne sets another of his soul-satisfying yarns...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...discovery, in mountainy canyons near Winnemucca, of extensive deposits of opals, those iridescent gems, glowing blue, green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged...
...only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home in the hollow tree hidden in the labyrinth of the forest...
...Flaming Forest (Antonio Moreno, Renee Adoree). Against a background of majestic mountains and lordly forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress Renee Adoree, menaced by a well filmed circle of fire, by a loathsome Indian scoundrel. Actor Antonio Moreno, sergeant, rides over tl hills, through the fire. The audience heartily endorses his oncoming, because Actress Adoree deserves an elegant rescue...