Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked to contribute 100,000 books to replenish the store from which these libraries are furnished, and to fill the boxes of books being sent to each outgoing ship. The committee suggests that reading on board ship is as important for the professional sailor as it is for the casual traveller. The present-day lack of pirates and mermaids leaves reading as almost the only amusement of seamen in idle moments...
Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates...
...competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking in a pleasant, casual way, provided more enjoyment for themselves and for the audience with less effort, and probably carried more conviction in their speeches...
With the output of books increasing at an equal pace, and with such uncertain means for judgment, the casual reader and the book-buyer are put to it to make profitable selections. The desert-island test of a book's value, recently restored to academic popularity, would find little, nowadays, that could be passed...
...find things not to their liking. On the other hand, there have been no standards set for the "popular" plays and musical comedies, and the people who go to presentations of Shakspere with critical minds, go to the others in search of nothing more than an evening of casual pleasure...