Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casual reader of the financial columns must prepare himself for an extraordinary amount of nonsense out of Washington," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's cynical Edward H. Collins. "If present conditions maintain, for example, there is every reason to expect that in the next few weeks the rate of finished and unfinished steel production will be far exceeded, proportionally, by the amount of finished and unfinished balderdash emanating from the President and such alter-egoes as Mr. Eccles and Mr. Morgenthau...
What was my astonishment to find in your Foreign News section a perfectly casual statement to the effect that the leaders of the 1927 British coal strike "received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State Bank some...
Crimes of passion are lots of fun. Sometimes they do not even have to have ladies, lovely or otherwise, in them, to have a certain element of esoteric fascination for the casual breakfast reader. Sometimes they don't even have to be crimes of passion. If it's just a nice clean, complete job, like a compulsory quadruple crossing of the Styx, it's enough to ensure most of the front page of the Hub City's news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently...
...report on inter-house athletics this morning indicate that at last one of the College's many representative committees has come awake and thoroughly comprehends the position of athletics in the life of the average undergraduate. The report although brief and factual to a degree which prevents the casual reader from readily understanding the heavy work and the slowly-maturing sports philosophy which lies behind it rings the gong. It shows the best line of attack on the old problem of mens sana in corpore sano--still a very real one for all the bilge that has been said...
Tense, animated, but somehow casual, Fuller said that in his Junior year he tired of college and as a way to pass the time as painlessly as possible, started writing. Without reference to other books, he decided to "write on something I knew about . . . not life...