Word: driftful
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...city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants a novelist's final absolution to the world-she writes of her characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest...
...total of seventy-two seats in the new Hessian Diet, as compared with the one seat which they secured in the last local election of 1927. The Communists also made considerable gains at the expense of the Social Democrats. The voting was once more symtomatic of the political drift throughout Germany. The Roman Catholic Centre party holds it own, but the Social Democrats are losing, while many of the old small parties are being almost wiped out as their former members vote for Hitler's candidates...
...week, ". . . in private conversation [of doctors] the opinion [is] expressed that radiation seems to facilitate metastasis, and that patients who have been rayed have strange and unusual metastases which do not occur with other forms of treatment." His idea is that primary cancers usually throw off stray cells, which drift to distant parts of the body. Radiation probably has nothing to do with the drift. If the patient lived long enough the stray cancer cells would probably develop into secondary cancers. But the primary cancer ordinarily kills the victim before the secondary cancers have time to become annoying. Radiation destroys...
...effect of this [moratorium] agreement was instantaneous in reversing the drift toward general economic panic. . . . I am confident it commends itself to the judgment of the American people. . . . Payments from many countries fall due Dec. 15. It is highly desirable that a law should be enacted before that date to postpone all payments during the year...
...Stimson had nothing to say for quotation. But speaking informally he let quite a cat out of his diplomatic bag. He revealed the drift of an exchange of notes with the Imperial Government which he had asked the Japanese to keep secret and which they had kept secret. The striking part of Mr. Stimson's revelation was that he had received assurances not only from Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara but also through him further assurances from Japanese War Minister General Jiro Minanmi and from the Chief of the Japanese General Staff. These assurances were such, declared Mr. Stimson...