Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different forms until he gets an answer. Because he dogged Mr. Morgan about his income taxes until that witness had to admit that he knew nothing about them, Senator Glass complained bitterly that Counsel Pecora was "badgering" Banker Morgan. Pecora's court manner is quiet, almost casual. Just when a witness least expects it, Lawyer Pecora will drop him into a trap. No loud bulldozer, he can be crisply sarcastic. Last week when one witness grew over-obvious about the 1929 stock crash, he cut him short with: "I've heard of that, too." He was recommended...
Drugstores, under Prohibition, have been legally selling a million gallons of medicinal whiskey a year. U. S. bootleggers sell, according to a casual estimate, at least 100 million gallons. The new Federal regulations will increase drugstore sales to between three and four million gallons, specialists judge. But there are only twelve million gallons of governmentally bonded whiskey in distillery warehouses. Whiskey must be stored at least four years before sale under government seal. Only four and one-half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply...
Perceptible to the casual observer was the coldness, the claque-like, unenthusiastic applause which closed the initial performance of "Barberina", the first German film to be presented at Harvard. This was immediately due to technical defects in the sound reproduction, unnecessary flaws which marred a most charming cinema. Of course, the film was badly chosen; it should have had a simple plot about a man and a woman and love which came at last, after all gangsters had been removed by the heroic physical efforts of the man. When critics read a Freudian significance into the modern immediacy of "Maedchen...
...moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard of seven guest officers, most notably Rear Admiral...
...good reasons for two extraordinary Jubilees. In happy 1929 it was the 50th anniversary of his ordination. This troubled year it is (by most calculations) the igooth anniversary of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. As a Holy Year it should turn even the most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti...