Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claus Gelotte confines itself pretty much to the camera in its window decorations, but a few bells and some holly indicate the season to the casual passerby. To the camera flend the window, loaded as it is with every conceivable type of this-and-that, is a strong temptation to bankruptey...
Lucky waitresses picked up three yards before loaded trays were kicked from their hands. With casual sweeps of the hand, patrons were brushing glasses off onto the floor from the tables. Chairs were crushed under upturned tables and benches broken off from the walls. A sprinkling of catsup topped off the whole mess...
This is not to say that Jordan violates his own principles of line play, however. He just just has had to adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
Though a bit shocked at the casual way Tacho switched Presidents, the U.S. State Department recognized the regime (TIME, May 17). Thus Somoza was in a position to buy U.S. warplanes and to start closing the lead gained by Guatemala's air force during his stay in the doghouse. He was also busily spreading the word that the Guatemalans, the Caribbean Legion and everybody else conspiring against him were Communists...
...Palmer's choice. Since 1929, when he went to work for Cluett, Peabody as a floor salesman in Chicago, he has run the San Francisco and New York offices, and put in the past year as boss of sales. Leithead has a salesman's persuasive tongue, the casual manners of an ex-cowhand (he worked on his father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When his son Roger reached college age, Leithead...