Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this book, two young bums, Blink Thomas and Author Tully, drift into "a scrawny town in a Western state." When they unhappily encounter a railroad detective, noted for his extreme lack of sympathy with bums, their troubles recommence. After eluding the detective they stumble into a "sapping day"-a roundup of hoboes by embattled farmers-are forced to run the gauntlet, finally escape to a deserted "jungle" and fall exhaustedly to sleep, only to wake in the arms of the police. A heartless judge gives them each 120 days in the county jail...
Death Takes a Holiday. Evening shadows drift across the estate of Duke Lambert, though there are no clouds to cause them. Darkly they invade the great hall of the castle, where a shrouded figure in their midst disturbs the midnight ruminations of the duke. The visitor is Death, come to arrange a three-day holiday for himself in the guise of a human being. The trembling noble can scarcely refuse to be a secretive host, and so it happens that Death appears among the other ducal guests as His Serene Highness, Prince Sirki of Vitalba Alexandri...