Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference is usually casual in the pages of your magazine and seems to take for granted that everyone knows what is meant. But today at our local Rotary Club I asked the group near me what was meant by an Old School Tie and did not find any who knew...
...Rome: "I met an American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet, all-but-casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced the next day. From the railroad station...
...from other southern Governors, who have an equal grievance against the railroads, Arnall bypassed the lower courts, rushed Georgia's case right to the Supreme Court. There he will argue his cause himself. In his haste he did not wait for the Interstate Commerce Commission, where the eleven casual Commissioners have been conducting their own investigation of southern freight rates for over five years...
...Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube. Old Anton Fischer, who lived on the island, welcomed the independent pig and escorted it to his shack, gravely holding the mayor's umbrella over his head...
...only a few hours before he was murdered by S.S. men"; "As a near relative of Göring put it to me," etc. One hot tip came from the only man outside Germany of the three persons who had seen Hindenburg's will. ("From a casual phrase dropped at a dinner party somewhere in Europe I stumbled on the fact. . . . This 'third man' seemed flabbergasted for a moment at my detection...