Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great power and still pay what they owe the U. S. in War debts. Because previous Indian boycotts have always broken down, British statesmen were anxious rather than frightened last week, calmly faced the probability that before "nonviolent non-coöperation" has gotten very far there will be enough casual rioting and bloodshed to justify the reimprisonment of Mr. Gandhi (let out of jail in 1924), and the mowing down of a goodly number of gentlemen in white, ladies in pink...
...correspondent Emilio Aguidino strolled along Buenos Aires' Calle Brazil smoking a morning cigaret, enjoying the warm December sunshine. Opposite the cigar store above which unique President Irigoyen lives in a modest apartment waited the Presidential automobile with its usual accompaniment of escorting automobiles, aides, detectives. Correspondent Aguidino gave a casual glance at a dingy little man in a faded brown suit who lounged nearby. He saw the dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent the car zigzagging from curb to curb...
...Harvard, to teach a subject by first arousing the interest of the student. This applies to students in general, as well as those in Fine Arts, who come to college hoping for a broader field of education than was possible a generation ago. Here is the opportunity for casual observation which may, in the long run, arouse appreciably more interest than the rigors of a class-room course...