Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many Etonians, he is impervious to criticism. He is aloof, independent, sometimes satirical, often sarcastic, but more often kindly. His verse shows all these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
...Detroit last week met the National Medical Association for its 32nd annual convention. It is the national organization of Negro physicians, surgeons, dentists and pharmacists. All Negro professional men do not belong to it; some hold aloof from racial associations. But most do belong, and to them, especially those who happen to trip against the bars of local sub-organizations of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association is an invaluable agency of professional culture and public health...
...other hand came carpers maintaining that Rhodes Scholars come home scornful of U. S. culture; aloof, superior, spoiled, affected. They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home. Lately they have been criticized by Englishmen, and justly, for clubbing together at Oxford, avoiding the very contacts they are supposed to enjoy, injecting into the Oxford atmosphere an undesirable element, especially in competitive athletics, where they monopolize the play and attention...
...title Mrs. Wharton means to suggest that her characters, in their social security, have scarcely realized the ruin they so narrowly escaped. Mrs. Wharton too, basking on the literary peak where she has longtime lived aloof, gives no sign of realizing that she is a distinguished anachronism...
...With young men and maidens, too, the parson hath his problems: for if from them he hold aloof, they mislike him much...