Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...
...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
...between the latter and myself to lead to mutual thoughts. I was more than curious to know what was in these letters, but of course I could not ask and he ventured no information, as it had never for a moment occurred to him that anything save the most casual acquaintance existed between his editor and his daughter...
Journalism in Washington is not as good a training school for politics as the layman might think. It seems obvious to the casual observer that in Washington are concentrated not only the legislative and executive branches of the national government but a host of independent commissions making daily decisions affecting the plain citizen in countless ways--all of which seem to afford a political laboratory not to be excelled. Then, the casual observer will say, there are the embassies and the light which they throw on affairs throughout the world...
...tables of men studying or interested in the same subjects. There was a real advantage in eating at such a table. The discussions of our work were vigorous and incessant, and as I look back on them I am sure that they were highly profitable. I cannot think that casual eating about at cafeterias can have any compensating advantages. The passing of Memorial was a distinct loss and I should be glad to see something of the sort reestablished...