Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree and it takes Him over 100 years." To the Chattanooga Woman's Press Club, Secretary of State Cordell Hull was less aloof: "Assuming that the trees are the ones that I know, I join with you ... in earnestly urging that they shall not be destroyed...
...case of real suppression arises at Harvard, the Committee for Academic Freedom would serve no function but to cast aspersion upon Harvard's present-day tolerance in the eyes of the nation's liberal press. This is not a very worthwhile stake on which to gamble the position of aloof grandeur which PBK now occupies in the eyes of Harvard students...
Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, stressed the fact that Harvard is "not an aloof and cold place," but one where "we're all interested in you." He urged Freshmen to meet as many of their classmates as possible...
...less confusing than Harvard geography is the tumult of meetings, buildings, people, and "vital" decisions confronting an entering class. The well-meaning patronizing of sophomores, the nebulous advice of juniors, and the aloof disconcern of seniors seldom bring much order out of the chaos. The college might almost as well hire a set of carollers to wander about the Yard singing a medley of "Hold Tight" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...
...that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...