Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warm winds whispered through the pale night, and moonbeams shimmered mockingly over the ancient stones of the nunnery. Inside slept Chastity like a drift of snow in a cave in summer. Behind the grilled window of a tower chamber in candle burned. A young friar saw it and smiled as he walked up and down in the walled-in garden of the nunnery. The wan night air, fragrant with the scent of flowers, caressed him. Old repressions and half-forgotten dusty dont's quickened his pleasure in the escapade. If one could only catch this fragile essence and then only...
...encourages another to "buck up," but for the most part pessimism is the order of the day. A female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre as the sole work of Louis Bromfield who has lately...
...long-range gunfire nine or ten factors might be taken into consideration for computing the most accurate possible trajectory: speed of battleship, speed of enemy ship, drift of waves, wind velocity, shape of shell, muzzle velocity of shell, atmospheric humidity, even the rotation of the earth. Naval engineers might wrestle with their ballistics equations for months to correlate these factors. The machine can do in five minutes what it takes five naval engineers four months to do on paper...
...glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...