Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News more disquieting than casual bullets came last week. The Dutch had assumed that their friends, the local sultans of the Great East islands, would not be troubled by rebellion. But now there was insurrection in Celebes, and even reports of trouble in Amboina, where Indonesia's most loyal native troops are recruited...
...Matter of Money. With a casual wave the judge indicated that Lewis too could make a statement-about his personal finances, with reference to the amount of his fine, which Sonnett had left up to the court. Lewis said he had a salary of $25,000, a life tenancy in a house in Springfield, IlL. and a house in Alexandria, Va. * but he remarked, acidly, that Sonnett had "lied" in telling the court that he was the sole judge of his expense accounts. (Sonnett said he was merely reading from the U.M.W. constitution...
...artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best in cinema. No man short of a Napoleon of movie would dare them, and DeMille is almost casual in their making...
...elegant female, standing on a chair while a grey-haired, spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...