Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope...
...make the range of his recommendations wide, and to include representative lectures in the fields of Science, Literature, Philosophy, Music, History, and Fine Arts. In general, the Vagabond suggests those lectures which, without requiring special knowledge of the subject matter, promise to be of value and interest to the casual listener...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...
...direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel in myself something of the beauty and dignity of the automobile in which I rode to this speaking...
...when the casual motorist in New England will have a new joy. He will drive up to a handsome colonial edifice set in a little park plot with poplar trees about it and there he will satisfy both his machine and himself. For the machine there will be gasoline and oil; for the man there will be hot dogs...