Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolution's early years she quit the party. Once she started a "workers' opposition"; Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin joined forces to destroy it but did not destroy her. An old hand at Bolshevik ways said recently: "When you think of the political company Kollontay kept and the casual way she treated the party line, you realize she must have been a hell of a beautiful something to by-pass liquidation...
...came at last to Monte Carlo. In the little Principality of Monaco, 370 acres of neutrality clamped to the underbelly of Fortress Europe, the Germans tightened the screws. Madrid reported that 5,000 resident aliens, thousands of casual visitors, were sent packing. Monaco, which contains famed, gay Monte Carlo, was left in the hands of the Germans and 1,500 native Monegasques...
...This training . . . can be best done in a sort of school or college where others . . . are learning to be blind. . . . Haphazard and casual training in the home often does more harm than good...
...lobster-supper diva of musical fable is exuberant, 42-year-old Grace Moore. Like the Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...
...years ago the Navy was a purely aquatic creature with only a casual interest in the landing of men from ships upon an alien shore; the study of amphibious war was largely left to the Marines. But two years ago, confronted with an amphibious enemy and the problems of waging a war thousands of miles from Pearl Harbor, the Navy stirred. "Terrible" Turner, who wears the wings of a Naval aviator, was hurried off to the Solomons to assemble amphibious forces...