Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside the Porcellian Gate, and indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still remain. President Lowell opposed the reconstruction of this area--he told me once that he preferred to have...
...appeasement, playing politics with national defense, negligence in face of danger, blundering, in eptitude, plain stupidity. Most crushing part of the indictment is the simple quota tions in Chapter I from survivors of the Battle of Flanders - brief, unemotional statements about the enemy's superiority in equipment, casual comments that it is "the story of an Army doomed before they took the field." The rest of the book is a true bill against the politicians who doomed these soldiers...
...Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...
...something of a tribute to the deep hold England has on her sons that in this book he plays several skillfully muted patriotic solos, better contrived to win U. S. warmth than whole symphonies of the more usual stuff. But America, I Presume is best as a casual exercise in a rare sort of anthropology...
Clambakes. The casual atmosphere of a Mexican studio would give a U. S. radio producer the jitters. Performers wander around, often exchange quips with the studio audience. No "Applause" and "Silence" signs interfere with the fun at these clambakes. Studio spectators tolerate no interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program...