Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cushing, reticent and aloof, made few friends. He lived for medicine. But at the Hopkins he forged a lifelong bond with Hopkins Founders William Stewart Halsted and William Osier, both much older than he. After Sir William Osier's death, in 1919, Lady Osier persuaded Dr. Cushing to write her husband's biography. Dr. Cushing reluctantly set to work, appropriated an enormous laundry table from the cellar, piled it high with boxes full of notes, set about retrieving Dr. Osier's myriad postcards (he rarely wrote letters). Much to the surprise of Dr. Cushing and his family...
...proposed to embrace the powerful railroad brotherhoods, which have stood aloof from the AFL - CIO fight, would deny CIO President John L. Lewis or AFL President William Green offices in the proposed new organization, and recommended the retirement of Green and AFL Secretary Frank Morrison at their present salary...
...Biblical heroine, Edna Ferber got most of her first-hand experience during the six years she spent on Wisconsin newspapers. Since she was 23, she has lived most of the time in hotels with her mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue...
Aboard the luxurious 22-passenger Imperial Airways liner Frobisher, speeding from Paris to Croydon Airport one evening last week, were a group of travelers that might have been chosen by a cinema director. They numbered 13. Main characters were a sophisticated Manhattan night-club songstress, an aloof British movie actress, an equerry to the Duke of Gloucester, a fun-loving mademoiselle from Paris, a Connecticut Yankee. There were also three solid businessmen, extras...
Quiet and aloof, Harry Wolfe is the opposite of Bob. Other present-day Wolfes are Old Bob's son, Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...