Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three things which "stick flery off" in the most casual perusal of the message: its clarity and straight forwardness, its lack of any very new or striking suggestion, and the difference of its tone in regard to domestic and to foreign policy. In the first two respects the President's message is remarkably in accord with the general public's estimate of the man. President Coolidge has been considered stable, carefully conservative, practical in a business way, in fact a good representative of the Grand Old Party; and his message bears this out. He is following President Harding...
...youth is told with an adroit simplicity that gives a minute picture without the semblance of effort. Every episode comes with the force and inevitability of life itself. He is never melodramatic, never sordid. He is consistently interesting. He has the invaluable faculty of exploiting the significance of the casual. He does not feel it necessary to take his characters apart in order to show how they work. Unquestionably they all have complexes and repressions and psychological eccentricities. But Mr. Swinnerton is far more concerned with making them human...
Eupeptic, good-looking, skilled in sports, fearless, a trifle bored, she grew up during the War under all the best social auspices, which bored her still more. She tried college casual flirtations, filing, the empty kisses of empty young men, the social round ? and criticized them all. She was loved by a somewhat pallid would-be author ? and cured herself. She gave herself to Vincent Blatch. The experience was helpful, though it nearly resulted in misfortune. He didn't love her, really ? all she learned was that this was a crazy world. She wouldn't marry...
...what he writes and draws himself; all he needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens at the "brighter side of humour" in introduction, mildly interested in getting at the subject matter, smiles, chuckles, and finally laughs outright,--and the poetry that follows, good, bad, and indifferent, goes down as smoothly as syrup...
...Grand Guignol occupies a unique niche in the theatrical world; faithful followers of the drama can hardly omit it from their agenda and retain the while their self-respect. For the casual amusement seeker the entertainment is only mildly recommended. Particularly if his linguistic equipment is limited to "oui" and "Zelli...