Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's proposal for unemployment insurance now before the 74th Congress will prove of deeper significance than the casual onlooker may suppose. Introduced at a time when the Gold Clause Cases have crowded it off the front pages and out of the public mind, its legislation has been allowed to be shaped by a handful of theoretical insurance advocates and a certain group of Democratic Barnums and bureaucrats each desirous to amend the bill in some regretable fashion in order to get a modicum of credit...
...show [Hobart's] portrait to the best advantage; you do not even snap his picture with his hand raised aloft, taken at a time when he was trying to silence enthusiastic friends and admirers. You do not picture him in such a pose, because you think a casual observer will think he were a Fascist or a Nazi. Why do you not come right out in the open and say Belgrano is Fascist? You do not dare, because you know it is untrue. Still you seek to create that as an impression...
...story in slightly reversed form, making it appear that the lady has deserted the lord instead of vice-versa. She becomes notorious as the "No Girl" and while drowning her sorrow is persuaded to cash in on her fame by appearing at a night club. She does and her casual manner makes her a sensation. After another crack at the Englishman she returns to the newshawk and popcorn. It's all rather simple, wholesome and amusing--worth the trip across the soft receptiveness of the Common...
...great minds of our country debate the weighty issues that confront them. Ultimately, decisions are reached and we, the people, suffer or benefit, as you will, from the talents or lack of them that characteristize our American statesmen. The Congressional Record is filled daily with their utterances and a casual reading of it will furnish a greater knowledge of American government than several ponderous text-books...
...casual reader can form only one inference and that is that I, as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps and a White House aide, made use of my position to attempt to peddle guns to foreign countries...