Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caesar Borgia, Casanova, Talleyrand, Byron, and Thomas a Kempis, St. Francis of Assisi,--these are the sinners and saints whose characters are examined here as a study in contrasts. All of them acted according to Mr. Bradford from distinct motives, so that the casual reader is free to choose his own favorite form of sanctity or sinfulness for study. But whether he turns to St. Francis or Casanova, he will find the same gently ironic insistence on the underlying egotism which prompted them...
Three Rings, Two Stages. Though the freaks were there, they wore a casual, civilized air. For the ballyhoo of the late great Phineas Taylor Barnum is gone from the circus when it exhibits in Manhattan. It returns only in the smaller towns, increasing in intensity as the size of the towns decreases. Last week's spectators were content to sit quietly and watch the main show, going in three rings and on two stages continuously for three and one-half hours. Chief attractions...
...highly specialized and possesses pre-eminently cultural values. The study of astronomy is the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone. Any yet who should not have the comforting satisfaction of knowing the true nature of the starry dome that confronts the eye of the casual observer on every clear night...
Baseball managers become identified with their towns in a peculiar way. Their names, intimately connected with the chatter of street corners, the casual talk on trolleys, the shouting of newsboys in the late afternoons, become part of a town's language. Their faces-wrinkled and burned by the sun, shadowed by visored caps-are part of a tradition of hot U. S. afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park...
...Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh last week rolled a strange new material. It looked and felt like a sheet of steel, but its surface did not shine like steel. It was a surface soft as felt. A casual observer would have guessed it was steel covered with felt. Dr. Alden William Coffman would have pointed out that a cross section showed no line of demarcation between felt and steel. Then Dr. Coffman, who developed it, would have explained that it was felt-coated steel, but that the felt was not merely a covering, was an integral part...