Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
Thus ticks a prime foreign servant of the U. S. He may seem happy-go-lucky, too casual to force a grave issue, too apt to wait and see. But no legate could be a better Bearer of Good Will to the gentle people of China. Nelson Trusler Johnson is the sort of roly-poly man a Chinese can respect, love, even fear far more deeply than the man with bayonet, dollar, or arrogance...
...whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor in tone. It just happens to be amusing, persuasive, lifelike...
Tibor Koeves (pronounced Kovesh), a Hungarian journalist who writes in English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...example to the rest of Mexico's extremely virile but somewhat casual Army, authorities recently persuaded 730 soldiers to solemnize their union with faithful companions who have been neither maids, wives nor widows. With the slogan "Legalize and Moralize!" a mass marriage was arranged in Mexico City at the National Stadium, packjammed with approving spectators. Several soldiers' brides carried babes in arms, but outstanding newlyweds were a trim, ramrod-backed officer and his stern, hollow-cheeked wife, who were proudly married in the presence of their brood of five...