Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Zula is wise from actual contact with the various classes of human flotsam and jet some that comes floating, broken and drifting upon the shores of life's great ocean," the writer adds...
...mines are designed to become harmless after breaking away from their anchorages, as required by international convention. Certainty came when, driven by gales, mines of German make washed ashore in quantities along the British North Sea coast and in Belgium, bashing into piers and bulkheads with savage detonations, frightful flotsam set afloat by the nation whose leader promised that Britain would now be spoken to "in language she can understand...
...London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...
...flood of international amity which has been sweeping down upon our shores since the Britons decided whom among the fecund Windsors they wanted as their sovereign, comes an intriguing bit of flotsam designed specially for Harvard. Not Albion, however, but Germany is seen as the brother nation extending a small sprig of laurel in an attempt to draw fair Harvard out of her accustomed shell. Harvard has again been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard has again, been honored by being asked to send a delegate...
...psychiatric section of Manhattan's vast Bellevue Hospital each year pass more than 17,000 patients. Through Bellevue's mental hygiene clinic each year pass another 3,000 mental suspects. Of the lot 6,500 are committed to permanent insane asylums or other institutions. Joining this yearly flotsam of mentally and emotionally deranged humanity are the 5,000 who drift through the psychiatric wards of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn...