Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cowboys & Indians. But Grandstaff was also a habitual musician. In the penitentiary library, he came across a book called Big Spring: the Casual Biography of a Prairie Town-a folksy history by Big Spring (Texas) Druggist Shine Philips. From his piano-selling days, Grandstaff remembered Big Spring: a prairie town of 20,000 which had sprung up around a spring where buffaloes, Indians, cowboys and finally the Texas and Pacific R.R. had come for water. He decided to write some music about Big Spring...
...rabbits or gypsies for annual Tree Day. They are fearful of seeming too girlish, but will happily make themselves look aged 13 running their annual hoop race. Wealthy girls pretend to be living on a shoestring; grinds pretend to be ladies of leisure. To be fashionable, one must be casual...
This movie succeeds, even more effectively than other recent efforts such as the play "Deep are the Roots" or "Home of the Brave" in making the casual spectator think hard about the negro "problem." This is true mainly because the negroes it depicts as central characters are intelligent, sensitive, attractive people whose problems the audience does not hesitate to share. You will catch yourself wondering what you would do in a similar predicament...
Even so, Ben does not expect to have Citation ready to roll until winter. Casually, Ben adds, "We'll need him for those big stakes in California." Ben could afford to be casual about that announcement, but to other horsemen with an eye on the $100000 Santa Anita Handicap and sundry $50,000 prizes, Ben's words were big, solemn news...
This spirit is perhaps best shown in rooting. Rooting for a team may be a casual act for an Easterner, but Californians take their cheering seriously. The supreme example of this is the West coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...