Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Favorite Wife is rational. The result is 90 minutes of delightfully irrational comedy. Again Gail Patrick gets jilted. So does Randolph Scott, possibly the only actor in Hollywood who can be dignified and plausible at the same time while confessing that he spent seven years alone on a desert island with Irene Dunne without ever giving the Hays office a bad moment...
...Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
Around A. D. 330 it suddenly disappeared, reappeared farther south. Lou-Ian, the city bordering it, became a sandswept ruin; the rich surrounding country went back to desert. In 1901 Hedin predicted that the lake would return to its old bed. In 1921 it did. He tells the story of Lop-nor, describes his explorations on and around...
...cartoonists panting for a subject on which to exercise their talents, a Harvard man's map of the United States has always provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made...
Last week Pele stirred again, cracked the back of Mauna Loa. From a jagged rift on the mountain's slope shot a cascade of fire hundreds of feet high, 150 to 200 feet wide. Fortunately for the citizens of Hilo, the lava moved down toward Kau Desert, on the opposite side from the city...