Word: driftful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month the New Gotham Theatre in Harlem reached the inevitable when four of its strippers were said to have revealed themselves for an electric moment with nothing on at all. The more acute among the 50,000 fans who weekly drift from one New York burlesque house to another felt that official wrath could not be far away...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...
...motored to Ithaca, N. Y. to attend Cornell University's annual Home & Farm Week. The President looked out of the window at snow falling and told her to telephone if she got caught in a ditch. "All right," said she, "I'll telephone you from the snow drift." "And she would, too," said the President after the door closed. She did not telephone, however. She and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. drove to Ithaca with a good chauffeur and there she marched in a fashion parade for the benefit of the Home & Farm Weekers, modeling her inauguration gowns...
...barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted a survivor, "floating through the air, half of his head shot off, and land on the deck. It was awful...
...stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies...