Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with news that France intends to float in the U. S. a refunding loan of at least $100,000,000 came an announcement that Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, popularly known in France as "Papa" Poincaré, had in the last year lopped 14,000,000,000 francs (about $547,400,000 at present rates of exchange) off the state debt to the Bank of France...
...year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung in the National Arts Club, Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick sponsored a show aboard the French steamer Paris. Other boats which now float picture galleries: Leviathan (U. S. Line), Santa Luisa and Santa Elisa (Grace Line), Colombia (Panama Mail...
...must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental and emotional proceedings in his characters, distort ed by their depth into shapes of beauty or ugliness, magnified or diminished with varying degrees of intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest's mind there float childhood memories, fragments of verse, scraps of conversation, encounters real and imaginary, idle and erotic, gay and sad; strings of words, chains of sentences, nets of associated ideas as tangled yet meaningful as the twisted ganglia of the human brain and body. Because Poet Aiken has a vivid sense...
...intervals there float...
...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...