Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brehon Somervell the New Deal provided new opportunities, as it did for many an engineer. As executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates...
...might be a farmer slapping an old horse. They knew that a chapter in their lives was over. Some current of emotion-half-abashed, selfconscious, a sentiment that seemed a little ridiculous when dedicated to inanimate machinery-moved through the crowd, finding its outlet in the horseplay, the offhand talk, the what-the-hells with which American workmen cover up what they feel...
...Aniline does not need chemists or executives as much as it needs friends. Judge Mack replaces D. A. Schmitz (brother of the German Dye Trust's Hermann Schmitz) who disappeared last month in an offhand Aniline announcement that he was "not now . . . president." Mack's election, the Aniline board evidently believes, will help uncloud the company. But the solution of the Aniline problem is not so simple as that...
...cannot be said too strongly that casual, offhand remarks at a press conference are the worst possible way to deal with matters of such great moment. These are things to be done carefully and thoroughly . . . not things to be tossed off in this fashion. Mr. Roosevelt is indulging in a petty vanity, which is that he is very smart. . . . Mr. Churchill, who has as good a brain as Mr. Roosevelt, does not do it, and President Wilson did not do it. . . . If the President is wise, he will henceforth confine his press conferences to domestic questions and to . . . action taken...
...little inn-girl, letting throne rule heart) one may be quite sure that it is Sigmund Romberg's score which fills the Opera House. You go because you know you will come out humming the almost classical melodies of the "Drinking Song" or "Serenade," probably not able to say offhand what finally happened to the prince's love affair. As for this production, it is enough to say that both the orchestra and the singers do creditable justice to Romberg's music, with an especially fine bit of work turned in by the Singing Male Chorus...