Word: outposters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian thrust before it could get well started...
...well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...
...York newspapers brimmed with such stuff last week because of a dozen men who often get up before dawn to "go down the Bay." They are the first outpost of the U. S. Press army, and are known as ship news reporters...
...tiny Easter Island, isolated eastern outpost of the Polynesians, a French navy gunboat deposited a hopeful group of investigators headed by Professor Alfred Metraux of Switzerland. Ever since it was first inspected by Europeans on Easter Day, 1722, the island has baffled scientists because of its wooden tablets engraved with pictographs which have not been deciphered, its hundreds of huge busts carved from volcanic ash. Expecting little help from the 250 inhabitants (reduced from 5,000 or 6,000 by emigration and polyandry), the Metraux party will make one more attempt to decode the pictographs, discover who made the statues...
Story of the Congo, Black God is no travelog but an interpretation of the spiritual conflicts that follow the encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...