Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue-gummed, henna-bearded gaffer, Jack Horner-like, pulls out a lump. Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose. Marshallah! A rose-pink pearl, pale, perfect, which-flesh-embedded-escaped the first casual pawing of the opened shells...
...leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than to suppose that the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. are conferred for postgraduate work. Instead of merely receiving these honorary degrees from his own university and from a small southern college, as you imply, a casual glance at Who's Who in America would have informed you that he holds the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale and Harvard, and that of Doctor of Laws from half a dozen institutions. Any competent editor on seeing the article in manuscript would instantly have realized that...
...mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
...remedy this condition as much as possible the Vagabond will recommend from time to time courses which the casual student can attend at any time with a good chance of spending a profitable hour. At present there comes to his mind Professor Lake's course on the New Testament being given at 12 o'clock in Harvard 5 on Tuesday and Thursday, and that on American History since the Civil War under the auspices of Professor Channing in Emerson A at 11 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
Interceding in a gas-torch week that has witnessed the call and dusty answer of the several warring political greats, a football game, strange anomaly, provides a breathing spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent...