Word: flotsam
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Every innuendo is tabulated, annotated, put with the other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid...
...announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and 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...
...should a youth volunteer to die in the burning heat of the desert, fighting for five centimes a day in a corps which has left the bones of its soldiers strewn in every quarter of the globe from Indo-China to Mexico? Flotsam recruits never explain their presence beneath the knapsack of the legionnaire, but it is not insignificant that while fighting for the far-flung Tri-color of France these romantic, scarred gentlemen rankers are protected by that banner from all extraditions. Glamorous traditions, adventure, protection...
Integration, the end toward which the economic world is drifting, is geographically desirable in the University. That Harvard should lose itself in the flotsam and jetsam of commercial Cambridge would be a misfortune, although not an educational calamity. Some time ago, a plan was formulated to provide for the growth of the University, a plan to preserve as a physical entity the strip of territory between the business school domain on the Charles River and the graduate dominions beyond Memorial Hall...
...What flotsam 'hap the winds blow...