Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being "in formal or spiritual fellowship" with the New Church. All of the above and many more modern writers and philosophers have had some contact with Swendenborg's writings but, with the exception of Galli-Curci and Helen Keller, none of the others ever professed anything more than casual interest, although Edgar Guest attended a New Church Sunday School...
...minister was his sardonic "You, at any rate, have always told me the truth." One of his most trusted advisers was Vandervelde, onetime president of the Second International, and of him the king remarked, "He is more than an adversary, he is a rival." He brooded over the casual criticism of journalists. He saw hidden reflections in an article on Maximilian of Mexico, had the author censured. He violently defended the reign of Leopold II even when no one was attacking it. His moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker...
...Even casual readers of U. S. history books usually have an ordered, although not very detailed, picture of the sequence of events that led up to and followed the Civil War. For them armed conflict began with the guns at Fort Sumter and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For post-war developments they think of Lincoln's assassination, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson, the scandal of carpetbag rule in the South. Generally accepted without question is the historian's characterization of Reconstruction as "The Tragic...
Author Bynner sets the tone of his Guest Book, but in such poems as Liar and Oats he sums up complex careers and relationships in a few concise lines, drops many a casual, oldfashioned, epigrammatic observation. In Widower he finds lovely symbols and lines to express his favorite theme of loneliness...
...whole thing is to me distinctly shocking. You have a large circulation among plenty of people who only know of poetry what you tell them, and you have taken occasion to single out a particularly good poet for a casual, callous and uncritical pillorying. I happen to think that poetry is a higher form of writing than any other, and I honor any honest and able practitioner in the field...