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In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lahr and his wife are casual droppers-in at 21 and the Stork Club.

From Time Magazine Archive

The conversation of the droppers-in was always of the nine days’ wonder—the recent marriage. 

From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas

Roosevelt took rooms at No. 16 Winthrop Street, a quiet little lane midway between the College Yard and Charles River, where he could pursue his hobbies without incessant interruption from casual droppers-in.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe

So much for my hint at visitors, which was scarcely calculated for droppers-in from Woodbridge; the sky does not drop such larks every day.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles