Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, attacking the A. T. & T. Co. as a monopoly against the "common people" in the approved Hylan manner. His letter has opened up again the whole question as to the future status of the control of radio broadcasting, and whether it shall or not be allowed to drift into exclusive control...
...play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...across the north pole, and he conceived the idea of building a special boat, which ice would not crush but which would be pushed on top of an ice floe. He intended to freeze the boat into the ice pack on the east coast of Greenland, and to drift across the pole. He carried out his ideas and after a year and a half, far north of the Arctic Circle, he concluded that he would miss the pole, and consequently, on foot with a few followers, he left the boat and set out, across the ice for the pole...
From that confused dawn full of hurrying footsteps and nervous whispering when Victoria learned that she was Britain's ruler until the Diamond Jubilee, the action of the play extends. Prime Ministers, Princes, famous men of three score years drift by in bright review. Chief among them is the Prince Consort, Albert. To play this part the Equity director rescued Ulrick Haupt from the obscurity of a German stock company in Chicago. Haupt expressed his gratitude by giving one of the most decisive and diverting performances of the season. Victoria is in the capable hands of Beryl Mercer, whose...
...forth to the world, in a bare three-hundred and fifteen pages, the whole achievement of Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...