Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Fe Trail (Warner) is one of those vast panoramas of an epoch on whose details Hollywood cameras love to dwell. It begins in 1854 with graduation ceremonies at West Point, shows Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis addressing the graduating class. Then it moves west, watches seven of the Class of 1854 patrolling the vast reaches of the frontier from their post at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Among the seven are George Custer (Ronald Reagan), Phil Sheridan, James Longstreet. George Pickett and J. E. B. Stuart (Enrol Flynn), a handsome lad from Virginia...
...nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...
...best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened humors. No one knows whether he enclosed a bill. But he added diplomatically that it would be "inexpedient" for them ever to meet again...
...TRAIL OF AN ARTIST-NATURALIST-Ernest Thompson Seton-Scrlbner...
Seton's fellow beings, wolves and beavers and blue jays, have rewarded him well. Last week, with Trail of an Artist-Naturalist, nature lovers could follow Seton's pattering spoor across 80 years, through the wilds of Canada, the studios of Paris, the publishing business of Manhattan. Young Seton grew up in Ontario. He wanted to be a naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London...