Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European plan for a President to remain aloof, letting the Premier do the work, and to make only the stuffiest State visits abroad, but when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
...considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff; in German, anheimeln, entmündigen, schadenfroh, Weltschmerz, Zeitgeist; in French chic, aplomb, verve, elite, chicane...
...Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing and digesting soil . . . organic") favorably with the American ("the seething smelting oven . . . mechanical"), admits he was slow...
...under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made for revision under League auspices of treaties. If these articles were scrapped, the United Kingdom could take an aloof attitude toward war on the Continent, whereas today her obligations under the Covenant make this impossible, and such aloofness would be the first prerequisite for Britain to get in under a Monroe Doctrine or other protective umbrella spreading out from the American Continents. *Population of Canada at latest census...
...Odhams Press Ltd. He is the most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them direct, receiving their messages through a lieutenant...