Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warrior's platform conduct during the past week. He has shown too much bitterness and given too much time to the campaign of 1928; his untutored informality and ponderous wit have precluded serious attention to affairs of great import; his reference to the Democratic standard bearers has been to casual, too brief to win them support. Finally, his Newark and Boston speeches have come too late in the game to produce anything in the way of response at the polls...
...train at Turin. It was afternoon and they spent the night there, then went on to Milan. There they went to the office of a travel agency. "I am Samuel Insull," he said. "You know who I am?" He was perfectly casual, displayed a thick roll of banknotes. The clerk knew he was a U. S. utility tycoon whose fortune had been swept away. He did not know that Samuel Insull was under indictment in Chicago for larceny and embezzlement, that the U. S. State Department was spattering Europe with cables asking his whereabouts. The agent provided air transportation...
...Casual concertgoers would have been surprised if they could have peered over the shoulder of Alfred A. Knopf some years ago and seen a letter which had come to him from Critic Ernest Newman in London. Publisher Knopf had asked his favorite writer on music to do a book on Composer Hector Berlioz, the erratic red-haired Frenchman who shocked his igth Century contemporaries with what then seemed to be defiant and unaccountable music. Critic Newman agreed with his publisher that Berlioz' story was fascinating. But, he pointed out, Berlioz was unlike most musicians. He had been able...
...casual observer India and her problems present a confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...With casual candor the Ontario Liquor Control Board made known that within 24 hours after their arrival more than 100 of the 195 guest delegates had applied for free permits to buy liquor* and that among the applicants was the No. 1 delegate of the No. 1 delegation, Stanley Baldwin...