Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five hundred hens of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm at Garrettsville, Ohio, cocked a frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry...
...abroad. To collect debts and alter governments by force of arms as the United States has regularly done is usually called imperialism, despite the assertions of Mr. Coolidge. It was the treatment of Nicaragua several decades ago that gave rise to the term "dollar diplomacy", and more recently the casual remark of a marine, "We'll see the right man elected, even if we have to vote ourselves," has been widely quoted. And so, when the press of the sister continent is unanimous in opposing the American program in Nicaragua, and in fearing for the sovereignty of the other nations...
...Washington, D. C, a bequest of more millions for education was announced. To the announcement was pinned the eminent name of Brookings. Students of social sciences devoured the information greedily. Dry are the subjects (economics, political relations, government administration, etc.), perhaps, to the casual student to whom education means plenty of furious football. Robert Somers Brookings long ago thought otherwise. Orphaned at two he went to work at 16 without the benefit of education interspersed with footballs. At the age of 22 he became a member of the reorganized firm of Samuel Cupples & Co., St. Louis, and re mained...
Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth...
Peaks of Destiny. So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal. The people in this picture are mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive...