Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published in the U. S. for the first time. It made a handsome, leisurely, well-documented edition of one of the least stuffy of English classics, a pleasant book for casual readers, a superb one for admirers of the great doctor and his amiable biographer...
...problem of parietal rules than any one else, have let it be known they consider the new law unnecessary and ridiculous. A sensible viewpoint was expressed by Professor Murdock of Leverett House who, in a talk on October fifth, admitted that rule would prove unworkable. He showed the casual attitude with which the Masters had approached the problem when he said that the present rule had been accepted "because it seems less absurd than any other rule that has been suggested...
...banking reforms" also appeal to the common-room liberals of New Haven, who, if they would make only the most casual investigation, would realize that government bonds weigh so heavily on the banks of the United States that only the hypodermic needle of the government-supported F. D. I. C. prevents a recurrence of financial panic. Equally attractive is the "experiment with government ownership of utilities," which may appear as justice to all sorts of political malcontents, but which promises to ruin one of America's most highly capitalized industries, the vast majority of whose securities is held...
...merchant said that it was a poor idea to have the Governor riding in the same car with the first Executive". As the President left the state without even a polite statement endorsing the Governor's candidacy, this casual opinion may have been more widely held than the Governor liked...
Caption: "While there's Life, there's hope." The new magazine set forth its principles and policies thus: "We wish to have some fun in this paper. . . . We shall try to domesticate as much as possible of the casual cheerfulness that is drifting about in an unfriendly world. . . . We shall have something to say about religion, about politics, fashion, society, literature, the stage, the stock exchange, and the police station, and we will speak out what is in our mind as fairly, as truthfully, and as decently as we know...