Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tales of Rigo. Apparently, the astral body of Drift, a play that lived a short life last season at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is up and doing. It now ambles on the stage of the Lyric in a stagnant incarnation, punctuated at grateful intervals by tolerable, vaguely familiar songs. The plot concerns one Rigo, polychromatic gypsy musician, onetime darling of society, now embittered enemy. His melodious followers ramble the forests in simple glee, vocalizing over three stumps, serenading the birds, celebrating Zita, Rigo's elfin granddaughter. She falls in love with a society man. There is mystery about Zita...
...evident. Without looking at his instrument board, he can tell by the feel of his plane that he is traveling in a straight line parallel with the ground and is ready to land gracefully. An inexperienced pilot often fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground in unison...
...children dead, the others undertake a last visit to the lighthouse. Like the music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...