Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP, NEP, GOSIZDAT (or simply. GIZ), AKHRR, OSA, all of which is clearly set forth in Voices of October. The Authors. No pop-eyed casual visitors to the Soviet Union, Authors Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick, stayed in Russia longer than the fortnight customary to most U. S. commentators. Author Freeman, professional journalist, co-author with Scott Nearing of Dollar Diplomacy, was there a year, planning, gathering material; Author Kunitz, instructor of Russian Literature...
Readers of Liberty, nickel-weekly, last week found "JOYRIDE, A Story of Love ?and Wings," by Alicia Patterson. Opening lines: "Laura Withers was bored. Not the casual brand of boredom that smart women like to wear. But a stifling boredom. . . ." Editor's blurb: "... A young writer with experience as a newspaper reporter, known to readers of Liberty through her articles on hunting, fishing and flying. This time she has turned to fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago...
...very casual presentation of exotic subject indicates how far aloof is The Sportsman's clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before...
...several years the feelings between the two undergraduate bodies, most of whom were not in college when the break of 1926 occurred, has been growing stronger for resumption of athletic rivalry, but the diverse policies pursued by the respective athletic boards of control have prevented any, except casual meetings on field or river. And although the break was caused by a combination of ill feeling and opposing interpretations of the Triangular Agreement between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the present estrangement is laid to the fact that Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 at Harvard will agree to resumption only...
...casual observer, however, it will perhaps occur that the situation at Harvard and Yale is by no means unique. A survey of wage scales at other colleges would undoubtedly reveal conditions more scandalous than exist at New Haven and Cambridge. Will some busybody at Princeton please keep the ball rolling by informing us what a square yard of clean floor is worth down in New Jersey...