Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of pairs a girl needs, without giving his book a housewifely air, although he occasionally seems slightly embarrassed by such topics. And although he paints no lurid pictures of big-city sin, he mentions a few tricks and warns girls away from a few professions in a casual and unexcited fashion...
...them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship for the U. S. In a little studio on Washington Square near the house of his host, Writer Jay Allen, he has lately been doing his first painting in two years. A small, sombre, keen-witted man in casual brown clothes, 43-year-old Artist Quintanilla had it in mind last week to quit painting again, go back to help his friends in Spain...
...play the role in the professions of a trained and public-spirited caste: the new society did not recognize them." As is usual in Wilson's writing, his most penetrating insights are incorporated into the body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize the observation that has gone into them. But even casual readers must be impressed at the way Wilson combines artful characterizations of scholars, homely, humorous details of their households, with lucid statements of the problems with which they grapple; be even more impressed at the meaning...
...love affairs, their prejudices, inhibitions, the tormented jokes they cracked about their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal monstrosities turned up to give substance to their fears and suspicions. Readers might feel that Author O'Hara had not answered all the questions about his Glorias and Julians, but they had to admit that he had followed...
Every time a goal is made, a red light winks. Last week the fast-passing Rangers were leading the red-light parade with 135 goals, seven more than their nearest rival, the Toronto Maple Leafs. To the confusion of casual readers of sports pages the individual scoring heroes were two gentlemen named Dillon and Drillon. Cecil Dillon, Ranger forward, was leading the American Division last week with 20 goals and 17 assists for a total of 37 points for the season. He stood, however, well behind the leader of the International Division, 187-lb. Gordon Drillon of the Maple Leafs...