Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, this is just his personal opinion, and doesn't appear in the stories he writes. Hot tips on "dark-haired Woburn boys" and "phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
...distinction and honors. This gain is in fact the goal of the Harvard system. It is also the most material sign of the times. Because such an increase has been steadily reported since the plan was inculcated, it has come to be expected and its significance minimized by the casual observer to whom the words, "Figures show increase in candidates for Distinction", become an annual chant. Before last year when it was necessary to limit Senior candidates for distinction to those men who had attained a Group Four or better standing by the end of their Junior year the percentage...
Until they die, dying must remain for people a wild and impossible conjecture. Most people, with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...University of North Carolina. Travels in Europe, delvings into European information mines produced the news which made possible the scornful iconography of his previous much-heralded work on Benjamin Franklin. From the same sources, he has gathered now for the life of a less intimate hero, the same casual, rapid style, a possibly less accurate body of research, but an even more engaging history...
Ever since the Advocate ceased to worship at the shrine of the Dial and directed its casual litanies towards the Atlantic Monthly there has existed a feeling in certain quarters that there was one undergraduate mood or type which was receiving no adequate expression. The answer would appear to be found in the Hound and Horn, whose bay is akin to a yelp from the Village and whose blast is more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle...