Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance into pugilism was casual. "One time," he says in recently but well learned English, "I was in Muhlheim. I walked into a gymnasium. There I saw two men boxing. I said, 'That seems like good fun. Let me try.' So they gave me some gloves and I boxed. I knock...
...design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself: "I can't feel...
Evergreens are posted here and there to stimulate the quiet and charm of a New Hampshire hillside; and on the morning after, the casual visitor is greeted by a scene not unlike that of the familiar New England cut-over slashing. Some meagre punster who professes to se humor in all things, might call t a hang-over slashing, but not many will give him the consideration of a fleeting attention...
...chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover has wrought as First Lady, but there are other, subtle changes. The atmosphere of the President's House is larger, more free. Its hospitality is more casual, for-granted...
...make the Junior Fraternities a liaison between different units seems to imbue some of their members with a hope for their ultimate salvation. Certainly it gives them more concrete reason for occupying the palaces in York Fields. It should silence the casual undergraduate who might look at the vast financial outlay represented in their houses and say "Why?" The possibility of service in keeping the quadrangles from becoming too strictly insular has advantages which commend themselves over the nebulous aims of the contemporary organizations. Yale Daily News...