Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambassadors of Great Powers to the Court of St. James's could not quite manage to remain aloof and silent last week as preparations got under way at historic Hastings to choose a new "Miss Europe...
...Craig, "may be described as the literary expression . . . of dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
...Four years ago he came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last week, before returning to the mine at Sudbury, he received a marathon winner's usual reward: a medal and a laurel wreath-presented to him by Boston's Mayor Frederick...
...professors were as proud of Bob Michelet as his classmates and coaches were. History was his favorite subject but he drew down A's in philosophy, political science, sociology and economics. No aloof paragon, he liked to watch hockey games, play casino, go to the movies, bring girls up to proms and the Winter Carnival. He never missed a chance to lend a fellow athlete a hand with his studies...
...often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among Goya's mistresses; Mr. Mellon's gravely beautiful Senora Sabasa Garcia; and the duchesses, generals, noble children with toys or animals whom a court painter must paint but which Goya immortalized...