Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Toscanini overshadows every conductor who appears in Manhattan, casual concertgoers have exhibited only a lackadaisical interest in his capable, scholarly colleague, born in Constantinople because his father was stationed there as supervisor of the music for the Sultan's marine bands. But it was a Hans Lange concert last week that aroused more real enthusiasm than any other musical event in the current Manhattan season...
Places where all conditions of men dwelt together in squalor, buying favors from corrupt jailers, gambling and carousing with casual visitors, rotting away their characters, were the debtors' prisons of England a century ago. Had not Charles Dickens exposed their evils (David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, etc.), had not the civilized world abolished imprisonment for debt, most citizens of the U. S. might have languished in durance vile during the years of Depression...
SPIRIT ENCOURAGING Varsity prospects are exciting, but behind the scenes one of the most important aspects for cheer, and one which isn't seen always by the casual spectator, is the spirit of the squad as a whole. If the second and third stringers are always on the ball, and under Stahley there is a little doubt about that, the A team men are kept looking carefully after their laurels, else they wake up one day and find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher...
While Mr. Harlow will have few of the material aids that have been extended to Mr. Crisler, he is a sportsman and a leader. His personality and his sense of fair play are already undermining the casual attitude of the past but it is a long task. One need only look at this year's Freshman team to see the results of immediate contact with the new regime. Whether or not the rest of the season holds victory in store for him, he will continue to lay the groundwork for future excellence...
...lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others, had never been her lover. To Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston got into a fight, was badly beaten up, stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when...