Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly over Boone's old Wilderness Trail into Kentucky...
...sobriety, intelligence have no value in a civil war; 2) that there is no hope for the vanquished in a social revolution except to start life over again in a new country. Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference, greed, intolerance and politicians...
...essence of Escape was its tingling suspense. A great German actress (Alia Nazimova), who returned from the U. S. to sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail, discovers her plight only a few days before the execution. The nerve-racking series of events which constitute his blundering, inept attempts at rescue are enough to frazzle the composure of the most hardened cinemaddicts...
Lamenting the book that the "Oregon Trail" might have been, if author Francis Parkman, 1884, "hadn't been a Harvard man," Bernard De Vote '18, editor of the "Easy Chair" of Harpers Magazine, opened the series of Freshman American Civilization Group meetings yesterday, with an informal talk on the American westward movement...
...Voto further explained that if Parkman had employed the same historical acumen in the "Oregon Trail" that he later showed in his studies of pre-Revolutionary Canada, that book would have been invaluable history as well as fiction...