Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...
...writers as opposed to amateurs, on the reasons for the egotism of actors, on the pernicious influence of Bernard Shaw on the English stage, on the excitement of rehearsals and the confused & troubling experience of first nights. Maugham's criticism is neither theatrical nor brilliant. It resembles the offhand observations that a busy artist might make to students whose abilities seem to him to be highly questionable...
...team backfield has been comprised for the last three days of Cliff Wilson, Austic Harding, Frank Foley, and Ralph Pope. Offhand it appears as though this would be the quartet that would start Saturday. In fact, it appears like a good two-to-one wager...
Shrewdly timed to coincide with Larry Kelley's sudden reappearance in the public eye were two articles in the Satevepost by Larry Kelley, "with" Sportswriter George Trevor, Yale '15. They were written in the offhand style affected by famed athletes in the Satevepost, were full of such autobiographical data as: "I was a shy, sensitive boy. . . . Mother wouldn't let me try for the team until I filled...
...Offhand it seems impossible for a Sophomore to break into the starting backfield, even such an all-around athlete as Torbert McDonald who did most of the ball-lugging last year. There is, however, the possibility that cliff Wilson will be shifted from a bucking back with Chief Boston to a line post, and in that case there will be an opening for someone to spell Boston...