Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the announcement was made, observers were at first shocked by what seemed the inadequacy of Senator Fess as a keynoter. To the casual-minded, he is just a bald, slightly weazened little man with a sapless voice, a sapless personality. He used to teach history at Ohio Northern University and the University of Chicago. He was President of Antioch College from 1907 to 1917. He rustles about in the Senate like a professor in an examination room, reminding heated debaters of the Senate rules, whispering concise answers and directions to his colleagues in the cloakroom. To have such...
...tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things escaped the attention of Author Powys. He writes about them with...
...basis of Senator Nye's "understanding" about a Smith-Sinclair relation turned out to be a letter he had just received from a casual Manhattan newsgatherer, one Charles T. White, who was forthwith discharged by his employers on the Republican New York Herald-Tribune. Records showed that Sinclair had never contributed to a Smith campaign fund, though in 1918 he gave $1,000 to New York County Democrats. In 1920, four years before the Oil Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought...
...casual list, made up of odds and ends of half-remembered information; but it touches the high spots in the story...
...shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts a player often shouts: "My horseshoe is two fingers nearer than yours...