Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
Whether the Committee is sincere or not will be decided by the Seniors who are being approached and asked to sign its petition. In any case, enough of the Committee's platform is so untenable as to make the casual observer doubt any significant outcome...
...first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were recent photographs taken at Teruel, showing Loyalist soldiers, casual with cold, going through ruined houses in search of snipers...
...prices appear to be tossed off extemporaneously. Just so in press conference he remarked that he still believed-as he had in 1933-that prices were too low but that he did not mean that copper should go up again to 19? a lb.† However, he coupled this casual expression of his views with the announcement that three days later he would really go into the question...
...suggested, always "invent arguments for his opponents that not even the stupidest of them has used." The beauty of Arnold's book is that he quotes freely from Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, and Westbrook Pegler. Perhaps Arnold does pick the more stupid of their writings, but at a casual glance these excerpts seemed rather typical...