Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aloof from the geographical battle, Representative Maury Maverick threw into the House hopper a brand-new bill to establish in the State Department an Institute of Friendly American Relations with part of its job the operation of a Government station for broadcasting to the U. S. and other American republics. The Maverick Bill specifies neither location nor cost...
Practically all automobile makers except Henry Ford belong to the A. M. A., and Ford Motor Co. almost always holds aloof from cooperation with the rest of the industry in any national enterprise. A. M. A. President Macauley was therefore greatly surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means...
...cites the fact that at his former alma mater "over half of the undergraduates are in receipt of financial assistance independent of family ties." His sketch of political clubs at Oxford and of students participation in party activities should be of great interest to Harvard men--all too often aloof from "politics...
...Womack, deaf and 60, sat aloof, his hand cupped to his ear, as indignant insurance adjusters and store managers recognized not only Bertha Mae but his three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Felis, Mrs. Anna Ehrman, Mrs. Blanche Miller, their three husbands, and a family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently sturdy, the Womacks had for several years proved more susceptible to injury than any family in the U. S. The slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over...
...friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed that Composer Carpenter had learned something, but could not quite say what it was. Some attempts: "None-too-deeply-ecstatic emotionalism of a facile fantasy . . . rhythmic vitality . . . mercurial elusiveness. ... It sings . . . in a world of its own, where a man may . . . stand aloof and comment, with some piquant glee, upon his own absurdity...