Word: nomadism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know...
From a spectator's point of view, it seems as if savage and nomad tribes must glean abundant fun from their belligerent frolics with civilized nations. It's very likely that they enjoy carnage more than their more straightened adversaries. Yet apart from sedistic impulses, there are other reasons which put the weight of the war upon the civilized nation. It must carry, often overseas, always into wilderness, food; ammunitions and other trappings of a specialized war machine, the usual items of the "white man's burden"; while the unspecialized natives wage their war on a rather homeless homeland...
...plains of the western U. S., hundreds of thousands of buffalos, all thundering. Where white men live on that noise, building fires of buffalo chips to cook buffalo steaks, love lifts its old song. Zane Grey wrote the book. Eulalie Jennings is the hardened wife of the crooked nomad, Noah Beery. Lois Wilson is an unhappy ward. Jack Holt strides about, looks manly...
...Like all my family, I am a nomad by nature. But in my wanderings over the earth, one longing has always burned before me like a star, the need of a single, great consuming love. I have been constant to my ideal of womanhood. Now that ideal is realized in my marriage, do you wonder that I am the most joyful man in the world...
...sung in Nomad one-night stands...