Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drifter. The family wealth died with him. William Faulkner's grandfather moved the family to Oxford, where William, the eldest of four sons, grew up in indolence, his romantic contributions to the local literary magazine, The Double Dealer, for the amount of liquor he drank...
Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally cut loose from him, tied up to the solider character of Frederick. The child of their marriage was born not only to comfort but security. From the triumphantly peaceful room where Francesca lies with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting...
...generation U. S.-Slovenes from Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted...
Died. Arthur Warner, 59, associate editor and columnist ("The Drifter'') of The Nation; after a brief illness; in Manhattan...
...rises higher than the melting-point of even hard-headed city editors, and almost anything may happen. The reader, too, contributes to the confusion. Some newspaper headlines are hard to decipher in mid-January, but the haze of heat distorts even those which make sense. For instance, when the Drifter read in the Herald Tribune on August 14 that "Hull's Kin Visits His Frigate," it was quite natural, in view of the recent unpleasantness at London, that he should think of Cordell. What was his amazement, then, to read in the second line that "Granddaughter, 82, Is Shown Over...