Word: drifter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drifter, author of acid comments published weekly in the Nation, has made out a ledger sheet for the sings and saving graces of these United States. He lists forty six assets and sixty four liabilities and hints that had he not been hampered by limitations of space be could have gone on with the latter indefinitely; the credit column is, he regrets, practically complete. Among the assets are found such peculiarly. American contributions to world contentment as bathrooms, the New York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers...
Ingenious is the Drifter and if his statistical reflections were not so trile he might be considered as a keep and searching accountant. But four years of intense self-psychoanalysis has rendered the less emotional public rather weary of denunciations. Critics, capable and scornful, have taught the nation that its mentality and its aesthetics are less than dust, that everything worthwhile in this country is an importation, and that God loves the Irish, English, Russians, Germans, French, Spanish and Swedish--but not the Americans. Consequently the citizens of the much maligned and over advertised United States have assumed a rather...
...Davidson, Under Secretary for the Admiralty, announced in the House that 37 antiquated British warships are shortly to be junked for what they will bring. Included in the list are 18 destroyers, 7 submarines, 3 cruisers, 1 "drifter" (fishing boat taken over during the War and employed as naval trawler...
...Drifter S. Sanford...