Word: drifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEN Professor Sprague cut loose from the Roosevelt Administration last November, it was with the announced intention of leading a national movement against monetary policies which he believed meant "a drift into unrestrained inflation." This book, a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the New York times, was apparently designed as the first step in that movement...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic while Elinor has fallen in love with a handsome English remittance man named Blair. Elinor, Lloyd and Blair go West, set up a ménage à trois...
...members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course. No shouts of "Greenbacks! Give us Greenbacks!" rose from the Capitol, but 20 Congressmen adopted a resolution, previously framed by 18 Silver Senators, calling for bimetallism-free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold -"at a ratio to be established...