Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stops by the path a few moments to have her child, then catches up with the rest of the tribe. Many people have also been impressed by Mrs. St. Louis Estes of Hollywood, who used to prove about once a year that civilized women can be just as casual-she rarely devoted more than two hours to confinement...
...lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite shocking to the casual visitor...
...laws were taken with Soviet seriousness by most citizens, as befitted the new Soviet morality. Casual divorce, free love had long since gone into the Communist limbo. Now the state was seriously interested in more & bigger families...
...Gonna Die." Hays & Hepburn began their recording aboard ship with the Amphibious Corps on the way to Saipan, setting the battle scene by casual conversations with privates and admirals, by recording 250 men singing Abide With Me (and obviously meaning it) in the ship's sweaty hold, led by a sweating chaplain. The recorders were near the beachhead in a landing craft as the first wave of Marines went in, Hays quietly telling what he saw, Hepburn manipulating the controls and making one anxious comment for all to hear: "If that's not recording, I'm gonna...
Russians, a vigorous people, often carry on the most casual conversation as if they were describing the battle of Stalingrad. They sometimes sing as if they were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience, its naively intense people, its fresh landscapes combine to make something rare in cinema-an unaffected pastoral comedy, spontaneous as a freshet, natural as a pail of warm milk...