Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drift away from a constitutional to an unlimited democracy of the kind that La Follette is preaching has always meant in the past the rise of class warfare, the disappearance of individual liberty, and the triumph of the principle of force", said Professor Irving Babbitt when asked by a CRIMSON reporter to comment on La Follette's attitude toward the constitution and the Supreme Court...
...began to drift into Kansas City, Mo. Women began to drift in. So did children. The men were Knights; the women were their wives; the children were their offspring. They had come for the Second National Imperial Klonvocation of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan. It was said that there were 2,000 men and 3,000 concomitants present...
...type could be spread more widely through the country. They would bring a new vision to the small towns of the North, South and West?only it would, perhaps, be impossible for them to fit into the groove of the small town. Here in New York, they drift sooner or later to their proper sphere of influence and prosperity. They become our only real friends. They are much-needed color spots in the Anglo-Saxon drabness...
...past two months, extra lecturers are expected to drift in unannounced...
Wearied at last of this outlawry of love, they turn to less frantic dalliance. The wife seeks balm of Gilead in the arms of a theatrical manager; the husband pins his hopes for philandering on a street walker. But they miss their erotic apoplexy. Eventually they drift back to each other, into the maelstrom. They must return to the bonds of holy acrimony. Marriage, they find, is the penalty for those in love...