Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-present guiding hand of Fanny is seen to be the driving force in the formation of Holmes' ideas and opinions. In the emphasis of the degree of this influence, a weak spot may be perceived in the plot. It is difficult to believe, for example, that a casual remark by one even so close to him as his wife could be the match which lit the legal conflagration that was one of Holmes most famous court decisions...
There were other signs of unrest in Spain. The New York Herald Tribune's William Attwood got into the antiCommunist, anti-Franco northern Basque provinces last week, found "a facade of order and prosperity that would deceive a casual tourist, a poverty-stricken land where a man who dares to say what he thinks is thrown into jail-or worse...
Initiates may find the real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...
...books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
Today, to the casual observer, it appears much the same, but to those who took their recent hour exams in its great hall, there came the sneaking suspicion that there was a stirring and constant life in the very heart of the venerable building...