Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Joseph Walter Belmont visited Australia five years ago, his whole career was changed. Since he was 16, he had been a bird imitator, whistling for his living in vaudeville houses throughout the world. In Australia a casual dentist filed away part of a front tooth and Joseph Walter Belmont's whistling days were done. Bravely he concentrated on raising and training canaries...
Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged, and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases thus represent no casual "decoration." They are a constant work of art, expressing the consecrated thought of the artist creating perpetual beauty in the worship...
From Cincinnati, earnest Socialist Norman Thomas broadcast: "The most wretched conditions on any large scale anywhere to be found in exploited America, exist in [the] cotton country. . . . These share croppers and casual day laborers of the cotton fields are the Forgotten Men of the New Deal. AAA has 'practically washed its hands of them and their problems...
...Wisconsin. Every individual who maintains the slightest contact with his locality knows the sorry state of the public schools far too well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover many schools closed, others laboring under the handicaps of classes of fifty or sixty, shorter terms, limited curricula, underpaid and unpaid teachers. Every community faces a situation involving one, two, or perhaps all of these difficulties...
Then Senator Vandenberg asked a casual question: "You know Mr. Flynn of New York...