Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's Gramophone Shop reports three other big-selling records from abroad: a medley of Noel Coward's best-known songs which Coward took time to sing in his casual, high-pitched voice; a scene from the Savoy Follies given last summer in London in which Actress Florence Desmond does shrewd imitations of screen celebrities attending a Hollywood party; a comic take-off on any bad lieder singer done by the French comedian Betove. Most popular of the new classical importations are the Beethoven Concertos (First & Fifth) which German Pianist Artur Schnabel has made with the London Symphony...
...from an historical standpoint. The reader must remember that this expedition was undertaken with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe for the Protestants. It is not difficult to realize this from a casual glance at the diary, which hardly lets a week pass without some mention of their religious activities or a record of the Sunday services...
This new step should supplement the American scholar in presenting the work of Phi Beta kappa to the world. It can scarcely be denied that whatever constructive movements may have been furthered individually by its members, the casual character of its alumni organization has made it difficult to assess the productivity of the society as a whole. The lack of emphasis upon the social features of its collegiate branches, in itself appropriate, has had the result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly...
...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...
...demands on the funds of a large institution are constantly changing, and must be handled by persons familiar with the situation, not by the inflexible provisions of a will. Furthermore the dispensation of such funds is often a task beyond the ken of a layman. The man with a casual interest in a subject, desiring to leave a sum to the students of that subject, is not necessarily a good judge of the manner of expenditure. A sincere and equitable bequest, in short, should be drawn up in one of two ways: it should either have been gone over...