Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between swims at the pool the President-elect shut himself up with visitors for long hours in his study. Starved for facts, newsmen had to content themselves with writing long-winded speculative pieces, often based on nothing more authoritative than a casual aside by Marvin Mclntyre. Mr. Roosevelt's press contact man. The three most important callers upon the President-elect during the week...
Burns & Allen, scatterbrained comedians in General Cigar Co.'s weekly radio program, have been gushing such lines as these for nearly a year. In Variety's national survey of program popularity they have climbed into fifth place. In the minds of more casual radio listeners Burns & Allen have shot into first place as the most annoying broadcast on the air-the climax of sub-moronic radiodrivel...
...comic lines are relieving, and Spring Byington, the casual widow at whose country home the meeting takes place, is the grace note in a play where everyone else has something on his of her mind. But even with the uniformly excellent acting. "When Ladies Meet" by little more than good entertainment...
Author Hergesheimer, somewhat socially-minded but far from panaceatic, tells his tales and lets it go at that. But the most casual reader will see that the suave surface of these stories covers a satirical intention that amounts at times to savage contempt...
...those who patronize it suffer no more in morale than the patrons of the Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that the object of his generosity is not a beggar controlled by a racket, and that he gets something better for his money than needled beer. It is not an ideal plan, but these are not ideal times, and the system excludes most of the evils...