Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtful States. Somewhere a wise owl once hooted: "That which is full of doubt is full of attention." And so it is with nine states where good and bad orators leap from stump to stump, where a casual epigram or a few kissed babies may make or unmake a U. S. Senator...
...casual epigram, a few kissed babies...
...college. Who is best fitted to receive a college education? What is a college education? These are vital questions and ones which, in whatever way would be helpful, the college undergraduate, the faculty member, the administrator, should attempt to answer, should at least study. All the other may interest casual connoisseurs of the pornographic, those who must, though it be vicarious, have floridity in their lives. It cannot interest anyone who is sincerely interested in American education...
...with impressive formality and harped on by critics for years afterwards, are taken by the participants with such a large calmness. The narrative of how Barrymore came to do "Hamlet," the details of the production, his own notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural...
...hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak George" Law, and Abraham Lincoln who pop up at old moments to make the book plunging, rawboned historical fiction...