Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domineering at all. London newspapers which recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time pensively fondling the top of his cane and appears to the casual eye incapable of plotting in 1915 to blow up Canada's Weiland Canal...
...that all its regular readers and many casual browsers have had time to see the current Advocate, few can be unaware of the excellence of the journal, which rarely boasts anything better than the "Opening of a Long Poem." Excellence is by no means a rare quality in the magazine, but it is too often hidden in the mediocre stuff which has earned the publication its Lampoon reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only...
...with the difference that they are always faked for the effect on the other characters, who look at the ground most of the time, except when they look up to "drill" one another or to look fleetingly in one another's eyes and swear undying devotion in a casual voice. Typical lines: ''Aren't you getting a little hysterical?" "I know this whole sordid nightmare." "I won't stand this treachery." "Now you're getting sentimental." "He said, 'Don't be silly,' so I shot him." All the characters light cigarets...
...most casual inspection of the annual operating statements of the Postal Department would reveal the illuminating fact that first-class (letters) is the only service to show a profit-that it nets the Government from 50 to 90 millions of profit annually...
...leading negotiators, Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Mellon was keen, experienced, hard, ruthless; Mr. Baldwin, casual, soft, easygoing, and at that time quite raw. Mr. Baldwin [today leader of the largest British party, Conservative] admits that since then he has learnt a great deal. At that time he merited his constant boast that he was only a 'simple countryman.' A business transaction at that date between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin was in the nature of a negotiation between a weasel and its quarry...