Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked up their copies of the venerable Commercial Tribune one day last week to read in a front-page box that the paper would "cease and terminate with this issue." It had been bought by the Democratic Enquirer, its dominant and sole rival in the morning field. To the casual reader of the announcement the "purchase" might have been effected the day before. Actually it took place in 1911 when a representative of the late famed John R. McLean, founder and publisher of the Enquirer, paid $420,000 at private auction for the limping Commercial Tribune. For two decades...
...social habits, his method of physical existence, his extracurricular activities in the college itself, his eating and drinking, his relations with Mayfair and with Bohemia, his contacts and his clubs--in general, upon the things that really occupy every portion of his day and night save the begrudged or casual hour or two he may spend at lectures or in the library as insurance against the ever-present menace of examinations...
...just about ruins the House Plan. President Lowell has proposed, but the Tatler has disposed. The American Sketch has become a separator in the dairy of Boston's finest, most contented families. The skim milk has ben bottled up with a label, "Use only for balls." To the casual observer it is obvious that Audacious did not consult the Dean's List: he preferred to get hot over the Social Register...
...stop, and as it were, take stock. Being occupied is not the sole requisite for a Vagabond's happiness, no indeed. Unless his memory fails him, life was better ordered back in the old days when he had his rooms in Memorial Hall Tower, when he spent his casual hours in the Yard, and the more important ones in his easy chair...
...casual observer, knowing the taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual observer would be wrong. Resident Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists...