Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work by the Social Service Committee has become increasingly important. Great progress has been made toward eliminating the peculiarly aloof and patronizing air college men so frequently display when engaged in social service activity. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realization of their importance and position to the average undergraduate...
Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
Earl H. ("Zack") Taylor, 45, has been Governor Landon's agricultural consultant since last April. A longtime student of farmers' woes as chief editorial writer for The Country Gentleman, he had hitherto kept aloof from political schemes for their salvation. Short, stocky, argumentative Adviser Taylor was born on a Kansas farm, studied business law at University of Nebraska, worked on the Kansas City Star before going to The Country Gentleman in 1920. There he distinguished himself not only by studying and thinking harder about farmers than anyone else on the staff, but also by keeping on tap some...
...excitement of the previous night's revival they had walked home with their boy friends and done things they should not have done. Before such contemporary and embarrassing evidence of the persistence of the religious moods that inspired Joseph Smith and John Humphrey Noyes, Author Carmer maintains an aloof compassion, avoiding sentimentality as well as the mockery which used to animate Critic Henry Mencken when he wrote about backwoods emotions. In Chautauqua, fountainhead of the adult education movement of 40 years ago, Author Carmer found much that was pleasant, picturesque, inane, a disproportion of old people, a general...
...devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture (all of them were on Beauty) grossed $1,000. In Boston 60 Harvard boys marched...