Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growling, "Damfool! Damfool!" Such assistance made Shaw feel as though he had given "a penny to a millionaire who has bought a newspaper and found his pockets empty." Spending much time in Morris' home, where the only social drawbacks were Shaw's vegetarianism and Mrs. Morris' aloof silences, Shaw soon fell in love with Morris' beautiful daughter, May. The equally beautiful, stately and cool...
...TIME, Nov. 2) may be entirely in accord with the facts. Most Southerners, having scant reason for loving him, are quite ready to believe the worst about him. Nevertheless, members of the Louisiana Press Association are not willing to go along with you when you say: "Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering . . . possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupé, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift...
Publisher Patterson is grey, wrinkled, friendly, spends much time circulating through his modernistic News building on East 42nd Street, sallying out around the town to find out what the masses are thinking. Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering, rules his paper from a lofty office in the Gothic Tribune Tower, possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these...
Last week U. S. readers of the Illustrated London News were apprised of Dr. Thoma's success in being the first man to hypnotize a chimpanzee. Not wishing to waste time on aloof or doltish subjects...
...Palace in Brussels were summoned Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland and Cabinet to hear an historic declaration reversing the post-War foreign policy of Belgium. By boldly assuming full responsibility for what he said, His Majesty raised his declaration above the cockpit of party politics, placed it on the aloof pedestal of a Throne which every Belgian deeply respects. It was significant that next day newsorgans of all Belgian parties except the Communist echoed warm approval, and the harassed Europe of 1936 received a striking example of how leadership can be exercised by a genuinely popular King...