Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath. He shambles about the Irish countryside, an excessively tall, loose-jointed, rawboned figure, with a heron-like stoop and enormous cranium. He has the simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more cultured mind...
Other folk-songs are Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Juba; Oh, Doo Da Day; Polly-wolly-doodle. One hears them at college reunions, glee club concerts or when a few blithe spirits are assembled at a wedding, a banquet or, in the South, at any casual soiree. They constitute a much-cherished portion of our native melody...
...Municipal, the universities and colleges, the foreign policy and the provisions of the tariff and international law, should all be administered to the advantage of the ventilated mouse-trap trade. You perceive that the discovery of distant regions, the creations of works of Art, Music or Literature are but casual exploits compared with the work carried out by the sales force of the ventilated mouse-trap trade...
Yesterday's announcement that six members of the Senior class had been appointed to teach at Yale-in-China comes as one of many reminders that Yale is not bounded by the four walls of the Campus. Although this significant university experiment across the Pacific may attract only the casual attention of most undergraduates, Chief Justice Taft recently added his word of praise by calling it a great investment in international good-will...
Senator Spencer: "We have listened to rumors and hotel lobby gossip and casual conversation and to unfounded reflections upon the character and business of reputable citizens until it has been said in our blearing by, a member ol the committee that the mere fact that a witness is summoned before this committee places him under suspicion...