Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear Lord Rothschild," begins the Balfour Declaration, and the remainder of this personal note written by Mr. Arthur Balfour as Foreign Secretary on Nov. 2, 1917 is in the elegant and casual tone he took on all occasions, private, public and forensic. "My dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...
...casual incident in New York, the second annual pilgrimage of the Order of Ahepa is big news in Greece. This year, because the return of the Ahepans not only coincides with Holy Pasch (Greek Easter, April 20) but also the 100th anniversary of Greek Independence, two Greek war- ships will welcome the Ahepans at Phaleron Bay. Sailing with the Ahepans as patrons, guides, were Senator & Mrs. William Henry King of Utah, former U. S. Minister to Turkey Henry Morgenthau...
...present two trained workers are sending from six to ten feet of brick hurtling down the inside of the chimney each day, with only occasional larger slabs falling outside to delight the casual spectator, and provide material for Film Foundation photographers...
...word and idea "vagabond"-lazy, casual, and (as he sings it) amorous in a far-off sort of way-has been curiously persistent in Vallee's technique, is almost the Vallee trade-mark-Vallée's vagabondia. His admirers may be surprised to discover from his self-revelations that his life has been anything but lazy, casual, or amorous. He ran away from school at 15, enlisted in the Navy. After that he helped in his father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique...