Word: flotsamizing
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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...
Authoress Olivier has filled a long-felt want by writing a whole novel on the entrancingly English subject of drains (U. S.: plumbing). It opens quietly enough in a cathedral close, where a Mr. Chilvester inhabits a Christopher-Wrennish house and quietly tyrannizes over his two daughters, flotsam of two relicts dead in childbed. There is an odor of more than sanctity about Mr. Chilvester's house. Yes, drains! First to notice it is not any inhabitant of the house but the Dean's nephew, young Christopher, who as an architect takes an interest in such things...
...very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem. But the full tide of true love is turned back by the flotsam of New York politics--as occasionally happens--and Joan proves her love by running out on Clark--but not before she has been soundly slapped by the aspiring politician. It seems that New York can't have a governor whose private life is spent in a luxurious apartment with...
...barren world with the sad face of disillusion. God, if there was a God, no longer was in His Heaven, and nothing was right with the world. Literature was not slow to sense this change. A new school grew up, a school of brittle intellectuals which bathed in the flotsam of a world beside itself. The decade of the twenties found a group of poets who distrusted the emotions, the subtler verse forms, the glories of nature, the grandeur of idealism. While the Romantics were making their last weak exit lines, these poets sat in a front box thumbing their...
Tulane has a Green Wave which made Flotsam out of Georgia Tech, 33 to 0, with a consistently sweeping attack lead by left-halfback Don Zimmerman, who made one of Tulane's five touchdowns, one of Tulane's three extra points...