Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge ate canned peaches at the White House table, the brand of fruit could not be mentioned. If Judge Landis gave a perfecto to George V., the cigar's name would be lost to posterity. Hotels are one of the few classes of business permissible of casual mention...
...ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate to the name of Umfraville. The three together, and occasionally this incidental fourth work out their lives in studied contemplation. Every act is done "off-stage...
...Story. Still waters run deep -a quiet pool contains, unseen by the casual observer, a whole society of strange and opposite creatures, thrown together by chance or nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves...
Negro labor, the great black section of America's casual worker army of ten million, is migrating to the North. If a report issued by the Department of Agriculture is correct, the exodus of Negroes northward almost rivals the phenomenal movement of 1915-16. Our last census revealed an increase for the decade of 400,000 in the number of Southern-born Negroes living in the North. The best authorities estimate that 250,000 went North in 1915-16. It was a great silent movement, without leadership, or even self-consciousness, which caught at the South like an infectious...
...actual unavoidable shortage exists because it was so impoverished by Congress in the matter of appropriations that it is unable to get the essential information. Perhaps farm labor could be attracted into industry; perhaps Negro labor could be imported North after the crops are harvested; perhaps the army of casual laborers could be mobilized for our essential industries. The U. S. Employment Service cannot tell...