Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
...Intent only on supplying existing demand, makers of 10? cigarets have lately been allowing their product to drift. Reasons: 1) rising tobacco prices have necessarily eliminated advertising and sales promotion: 2) most manufacturers did not have sufficient capital to accumulate large supplies of cheap raw tobacco when the price...
...middle-class American and in tracing the changing texture of their life Miss Suckow portrays the loss of faith and security which has followed the war. Their four children seem to be typical middle-western youngsters but the outside change and movement is reflected upon them and they drift rapidly away from their parents. Carl, the eldest and the pet of the family and the town, drifts through force of habit into marriage with a childhood sweetheart and after a few years of struggle to attain a richness and response which his wife cannot give him, he settles down...
From the little tidbits that drift into our hands now and then, it is quite apparent that the ball team took more than a passing interest in the Japanese girls and what is told of open-air baths and bar-room entertainers furnishes plenty of excuse for the six defeats...
...family miserable until they let her go to Manhattan. There she plunges into Greenwich Village, loses her irksome virginity, and has a desperate affair with a solid married man, who takes her to the Southwest and parts with her there. When they are both back in Manhattan again they drift inevitably together. But they can never marry, prefer not to think of the future...