Word: offhand
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...homely. Hungarian soul of the young cousin accepts everything, including her offhand promise to divorce her husband and make a respectable man out of her lover. But in the morning, when the impossible but wealthy husband arrives, she forces her night-owl to hoot some efficient lies that restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over?and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love...
...cause may be quite different. At any rate, the only sensible course is to investigate everything and arrive at the truth; if the facts then show that the Republicans are an iniquitous lot of tricksters and grafters--three cheers for the Democrats and may their tribe increase. But these offhand condemnations, supported by half-baked evidence and incomplete testimony show only too clearly the present state of our political parties, each of which is too weak to stand on its own merits, without defaming and vilifying the other...
...playing of this substantial superficiality is chiefly in the hands of Lyn Harding as the Grand Duke. The New York Herald: 'The neatest and most fetching surprise finish of the season ... an evening of spoofing, leaving the impression that - here is George M. Cohan being done in an offhand British manner...
...always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...
...indeed difficult to name, offhand, another college class to equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...