Word: aloofness
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...Princetonian reviewed the history of the Graduate college, especially Woodrow Wilson's opposition to it. As present of Princeton Wilson wanted its graduate school to be "at the very heart of the campus" while the dean of the school. Andrew Fleming West favored a distant location and an aloof conception for his school. Eventually west favored a distant location and au aloof conception for his school. Eventually West aided by an offer of a $4 million bequest for his "separate" Graduate college, swung most Princeton alumni to his side and Wilson reassigned taking as consolation the post of President...
...poised and handsome 47, with a flair for wearing clothes and a brisk, aloof air of success, Oveta Hobby first took to politics at the age of ten when she began reading the Congressional Record aloud to her father, a lawyer and state legislator. At 20, she was parliamentarian for the Texas legislature, later went to work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children...
...works these days in his big, soft-carpeted office at Marine Headquarters, which stands symbolically above and aloof from the Pentagon, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd takes a flinty satisfaction in the heft of the weapon at his hand. He has grown up with the "modern" Marine Corps and few of its officers have been so intimately involved in its struggles-both in the field and the congressional committee room...
There are only two dressing rooms at the Brattle, one for the men, another for the women. Stars and extras dress together, but the old members stayed aloof...
...Assembly on the Tightness of the U.S.-and U.N.-action in Korea. To diplomats nagged by the conviction that Americans are illogical, explosive, and unreasoningly bellicose, the U.S. Secretary of State spoke for nearly three hours from a lawyer's brief that was well prepared and delivered in aloof and detached fashion. Speaking to the 60-member Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, Acheson marched meticulously from fact to fact. He recited, step by step, the story of U.S. and Korea from the days of the Cairo Declaration to the truce tents at Panmunjom, and was indeed able...