Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selfish love for his daughter and his every effort is directed toward keeping her for himself. The girl, excellently portrayed by Julie Hayden, has grown up in the barren solitude of the plains, and until the strange young man appears, she seems mechanical and devoid of emotion. Her casual meeting with the traveler arouses all her suppressed feelings, and the climax is reached when the father discovers the two together. The girl turns against her father, and he dies. The young man goes on his way, and she is now completely forsaken. Classic in its simplicity and directness, it bears...
While this play offers nothing unusual or starting, yet is it dished up in a manner novel enough to make it attractive to the casual playgoer. In the familiar situation of a family with a tradition whose son falls for the peroxide rinse adventuress, we have a large assortment of old comic standbys, prominent among whom is the crusader for unrepressed sex, the avid reader of Havelock Ellis...
...student body more generally eager for peace. But this keenness for peace does not imply that America should be defenseless. It does not mean that we can dispense with even the meagre framework of an army of which the student R.O.T.C.'s are a small part. Such casual training of volunteers holds no possible militaristic threat. The R.O.T.C. members are simply wise enough to know that peace cannot be obtained by weakening our already utterly inadequate army...
...professors. He has had to publish works of supposed scholastic merit which have been deemed essential to admit him to the fellowship of learned men. Many of these treatises have received no circulation beyond the examining board and are composed merely to satisfy an academic whim. After casting a casual glance over titles of the obscure subjects upon which the academic aspirant must write, one is inclined to wonder if this really is a true indication of scholarship. Are tracts on scholastic minutiae essential, do they indicate which are the sheep and which the goats? Changing aspects of education...
...merits of the bill are of course, self evident, but the really decisive argument for its passage is offered by a casual scrutiny of the opposition lobby. It is no surprise to find the compounders of ineffective panaceas, love charms, unmentionables, and spurious venereal disease cures on this role d'honneur--for the passage of the bill would render them criminals. The participation of the backers of such widely used and palpably respectable products as Castoria, Midol, Cascarets, Crazy Crystals, and Ovaltine is the significant fact. This is patently a confession of deceptive advertising which can and must eventually...