Word: offhandedly
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...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...
...discussion, among other matters, was an industry-wide wage boost, to include all the nation's 27,000 unionized makers of tableware, lighting fixtures, tubing, lenses-from the semiskilled up to the offhand caster plate workers at the tiptop of the craft's rigid craft system. Not included in their ranks: workers in bottles, jars, flat glass...
Since December 1939, the letters of 22-year-old Roy E. Buckley have been crammed with such offhand heroics. To his mother and friends in Canada, Buckley wrote of dogfights over Norway, France, Britain, of five Germans he shot down in one fight, of a 35-hour flight from Britain to Singapore in a U.S.-built bomber, of his Distinguished Flying Cross and other decorations, of his promotion to Acting Squadron Leader...
...less exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...
Last November, the Post editorialized on "increasing restiveness" among Minister Howe's top-flight dollar-a-year men. They agreed, said the Post, that he had weaknesses (a "slop-over of his strengths"), such as his offhand way of tossing around millions, his tendency to place a war order and simultaneously speak of the goods as already delivered. Last year, while Minister Howe was in England, the Financial Post exposed the botched situation in Federal Aircraft Ltd., Government-formed company to coordinate aircraft production. (Source of the Post's well documented exposé was plane manufacturers themselves...