Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the Beech-Nut Gum advertisement on the back cover was paid for, might well have been guessed by the casual reader. It showed the caricature of a Negro girl alongside the gum-slogan: "Makes the next smoke taste better." Other paid advertisements in the issue, more disrespectful to the product and much funnier, are harder to identify...
...follow a team from its early training period to the end of the season. Watching the development and learning the traits of the players is the part of following a sport. An odd game in the middle of a season offers small excitement to a casual spectator. It means a lot to any one who knows the team...
Small, neat, at 66 Dr. Breasted is nearly as full of vigor as he was when he bought his donkey. His smile still sends the ends of his silky white mustache curling up wards. He has the unusual faculty of making casual listeners as enthusiastic about digging as he is, has been known to excite even blase newsmen. Ancient kings he has disinterred he refers to as "my friends," jokes about his duty to intro duce them to modern civilization. The shrewdness of his Colonial van Breestede ancestors undoubtedly had been of service to him in raising money...
...match. This is a pretty portrait, but it would never do in a blue book. Tomorrow Mr. Vernadsky will talk in Boylston 21 at ten o'clock on Peter the Great. The Vagabond is going for he will be furnished with knowledge for an examination, a divisional, or for casual talk when the cigars are lit and the port is passed around...
This picture hangs on the first landing of the stairway leading to the second floor of the Museum. It has been placed in this conspicuous position that the casual visitor to the galleries may carry away the remembrance of at least this one fine picture, that the students, hurrying through the lower halls to lectures may perhaps be drawn up the stairway to an inspection of the beauty displayed on the second floor, that lovers of art may see this masterpiece alone and undisturbed by the juxtaposition of greater or inferior...