Word: off-handedly
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Last week the validity of the Rear Admiral's official report and the Major's off-hand statement was rudely challenged when the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino killed five more U. S. Marines, thus bringing the total of Marine deaths for the past year...
...then, here and there, as Biblical researchers probe into moldy monastery caches or Roman tumuli, they bring to study some off-hand reference to the Man. One student, from some remnants of manuscript, puts His height at 5 ft. 2 in. (TIME...
...designed by its publishers, the Harvard Athletic Association, to amuse the impatient crowds in case of a postponement of the starting time, to educate them in "What the Young Girl May Wear", to give them a background of crew history, and to give them, in the most approved off-hand fashion, some idea of who will race on Friday...
...supposedly the offspring of a dim and juvenile marriage in far off Texas which nobody thought much about at the time, such things being quite customary. Evidently Miss. Blankenburg almost forgot the matter herself, what with steer raising and one thing and another. After all its hard to remember off-hand whom one's father married, and when, and why. In the same class is Carlotta Crabtree whom Attorney J. J. Hoy testifies is Lotta Crabiree's living niece, who has just thought of the rather amusing fact that she is the daughter of John Crabtree, Lotta's formerly childless...
...tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content?one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent popular and unindicted successes that far surpass it in "frankness"?it has no cheap tricks of titillation about it at all?and a review in. the New York Evening Post even complained of supposed expurgations in the English version. Dr. Carl Van Doren...