Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...
...Loing, France, unable to go among men and hear them praise his music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing his music-over...
...shell had rather a hectic voyage because of the drift wood which has been in the river for the last two or three days. In fact, P. M. Moffet '28, rowing number two in the new boat broke the blade of his oar when he hit a small log which was submerged in such a way that it could not be seen by the coxwain...
This is the month when Stillman does a rushing business in spring colds and other light ailments, and when those who are too lazy even to make the journey up Mount Auburn Street are content to drift aimlessly and disintegrate under the warm March sun. Among all those having a sense of decency, the April hours are not discussed; they are one of the most unpleasant facts of life. It is almost impossible for any except those who are able to study during the Christmas holidays to prepare with any degree of interest for an examination at this time...
...Drift Toward Disunion, 1855-58," Professor Schlesinger, History 32b, New Lecture Hall...