Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Premier Baldwin rose to reply it was with that somehow pat irrelevance which makes his casual remarks so deadly. "One thing that troubles me," he said placidly, "is that such loyalty and fortitude as the 1,000,000 miners have shown every day during the strike should have been exploited by incompetent leadership.... We shall go to the pollslabby utterance is the crux. The House need not ipso facto be dissolved until 1929. Were it dissolved tomorrow, recent by-elections show that the Labor party could count substantial gains; but much may happen while Mr. Baldwin takes...
...needed. I would say the same of many of the alleged supernormal physical phenomena of mediumship. I am not convinced of the supernormality ... but I do feel that evidence for them is such that the scientific world is not justified in pooh-poohing. . . . This is no field for the casual amateur...
...yarns of blood and thunder stand out like welcome terra firma to a man in an open boat. For in the shifting sea of truth and actuality where floats the usual novel of today, the convincing tale of the impossible is a delectable and long sought isle where the casual reader may forget for a time that life is after all a rather nasty combination of prohibitions and inhibitions...
...breweries at St. Louis, Vereinigten Staaten, were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests for a season...
...westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate of the thickness of the ice gave 500 feet...