Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great friends were the deft caricaturist Sem, and Jean Giovanni Boldini, "The King of Swish," whose portraits of women seemed like the ravishing end toward which Helleu's casual etchings were moving...
...artificial simplicity. Fear of the frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...Federal view of vacations: ODT approves a one-trip vacation (if not too far away) as "necessary travel." Casual trekking-off over weekends is frowned on. Trains (preferably coaches), busses and common carriers are all right for holidaying-if space can be found. The use of private automobiles in the East is strictly illegal-even to visit an Army camp. But Washington said that travel would not be rationed this year...
Last Post. No nation handles its casual ties as carefully as we do. The 125 who lie in rows at the edge of the crude cemetery were examined meticulously. A medical officer (Captain Louvera B. Schmidt of Salem, Ore.) recorded the cause of death and the number and type of wounds as each body was unclothed. Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed...
Some can also swear as well. Henpecked Harry Wilson, dean of girl-softball umpires, maintains that the female Lippy Durochers, with their special brand of umpire-baiting, draw larger crowds than Softball's Di Maggios. No one knows how many casual customers became confirmed the day Umpire Wilson was thus bawled out by an exasperated lady catcher: "Listen, big boy, if you'd take your lamps off the batter's knees long enough to look around, maybe you'd see more of these pitches coming over as strikes...