Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither is this drift carrying us?' " As the Archbishop of Canterbury was by this time getting definitely a "bad press," the sagacious Primate of All England gave a most sumptuous feast to British journalists in his Lambeth Palace, regaling them with pheasant and choice wines...
...Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing in the burnt grass...
...adage is true that one must go abroad to hear news of home. Stories of big week-ends drift back slowly; and viewed from the calm comfort of sobriety, incidents which were heartbreakingly disappointing are not without their tinges of humour...
...attack on Sir Thomas, rapier-tongued Winston Churchill made the most of an admission that the Cabinet is keeping "fluid" its Rearmament plans. "The Government cannot make up their minds," snorted Mr. Churchill, "and so they decide only to be undecided, resolve only to be irresolute, are adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful but impotent...
Incidents of the Democratic Drift...