Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years (1920-26), Dr. Simon was a New York City deputy police commissioner. Later he had a laboratory on the Bowery for psychiatric examination of Manhattan's human flotsam. The eye-pattern idea was suggested to him by Dr. Isadore Goldstein, ophthalmologist of Mount Sinai Hospital, who in working out the system took care of the anatomical angle. Drs. Simon and Goldstein were joined by a small grey man named Allan Broms, an expert handler of charts and graphs...
...fact at the veiled trial seemed significant. Previously at such affairs the accused have been elderly or middle-aged persons at whom the Soviet Press sneered as "flotsam left over from the old regime." Youthful Russia has always been touted as solidly Bolshevik, solidly Stalinist. Last week the 14 accused at Leningrad were all young men in their 20's and 30's, Russians who have grown to manhood under the Red flag. They were accused broadly of a major plot to assassinate not only "Dear Friend Sergei" but the chief leaders of the Government, including Stalin...
...waves of poetry and war have washed up much flotsam and some rare finds on literature's beach. A poet and a War veteran, Richard Aldington is neither trash nor treasure but an excellent example of a soundly second-rate writer. A poet by trade, Author Aldington has lately turned to satirical novels whose unenlightened realism makes good reading for those who like their humdrum with a seasoning of malice. Since English Author Aldington puts only his own countrymen in his pillory portraits, U. S. readers can gaze on them with a certain equanimity. Latest Aldington exhibit...
...with bolstering up the at all times shaky structure of good will between foreign and American students. I firmly believe that any future attempts to excite nationalistic and racial prejudices on the part of unauthorized and obviously uninformed persons should be definitely discouraged. . . We must guard against allowing the flotsam of political prejudice casting upon us the stigma that we allow ourselves to be msekly impressed by odoriferous brochures whose sole motivation is the more petty aspects of race antagonism and national chillblains. In this letter I can only appeal to the good sense of the majority of Harvard students...
When we saw part of the literary flotsam cast up by last weekend's inundation of the Advocate Building's cellar we were again reminded of how poor a navigator was Miss Emily Dickinson. "There is no frigate like a book," wrote she with, to be sure, great joy but with little sensitivity for the nuances of wet lambskin...