Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...
...Most underrated play: Paul Osborn's casual, but amusing and lifelike Morning's at Seven (44 performances...
...appointments begin. Lunch is a conference over desk trays. The President is not skillful with his hands: they fumble with papers, with spectacles; the wood matches he uses often break under his heavy fingers. When he appears casual, easy, charming, his hands are still. He likes to laugh, even these days -a delighted roar that shakes him up & down-and still in the hoarded minutes of his day finds time to write lusty wisecracks in memos to his aides; to think up little gags to spring on his press conferences...
...President moved fast and consistently. In the midst of exchanging apparently casual repartee with a press conference last week, he slipped over a blue-ink-typewritten memo from Missy LeHand. announced the revival, under the 1916 National Defense Act, of a Council of National Defense-six Cabinet members and seven coordinators to organize the still shadowy effort to arm the country...
...Town is also a poem in play form. Thornton Wilder wrote it in the only poetic idiom which Americans always understand-simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...