Word: offhands
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...Derby that has been run 145 times at Epsom Downs, England, is a famous race, but not a fashionable one. You can say in an offhand way that you didn't have time to see the Derby this year without having people put you down as a boor. The King, for instance, didn't know till the last minute whether he would go down or not but when he looked out of the window and saw that there was a bright sun shining he decided that it might be fun. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught...
Present Arms is a loud and energetic musical comedy that deals, in an offhand way, with the amorous misadventures of a cub marine who tells his girl that he is captain and an alumnus of Yale University. Tough though he is, the lady believes him. Her disgust, when she learns the truth, is not dissipated until the final curtain...
...only criterion of whether or not a sex play is pernicious is good taste. And good taste is a criterion impossible to apply, not only because good taste and public taste differ. Good taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what...
...Representatives be increased from $7,500 to $10,000 a year, and the salaries of the Speaker of the House, the presiding officer of the Senate and members of the Cabinet, now receiving $12,000, be increased to $15,000. The whole affair was carried off in the most offhand manner, as if the Senate were remarking: "Oh, by the way, of course we deserve more...
White again shows a regrettable tendency to lapse into invective against blue-law reformers (now somewhat of a dead issue). Perhaps this inverted tendency to preach is a consequence of the juvenile spiciness in some of his skits. But these are galloped through at such speed that the offhand presentation of "low taste" can hardly give offense...