Word: aloofness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...
...most promising football material in the Christmas exams. When alumni howled, Rice reluctantly established a slightly less exacting department of physical education with a B.S. for thick-skulled athletes, but it never liked the idea. Rice has had only one president in its 34 years, derby-hatted, aloof Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett. Four years ago, at 70, Dr. Lovett said he wanted to quit...
Back in Detroit, on the 15th floor of the General Motors Building, G.M.'s grey, aloof President Charles E. Wilson held a 90-minute press conference in which he took some of the play-and the headlines -away from U.A.W. and Strike Tactician Walter Reuther. He made it unmistakably clear that G.M. had no intention of backing down...
...Banker Hjalmar Schacht who, so far, had been as stiff in court as his famous, forbidding four-inch collars. Always a solid citizen, a self-made man who had risen from a small clerkship to the presidency of the Reichsbank, a clubman of quiet but expensive style, he held aloof from riffraff like Göring-whom, he said, he would now gladly kill with his own hands. The record read: Schacht was host at a special meeting of German industrialists called to raise money for the Nazi Party before the March 1933 elections. If Hitler won, Göring...
...bearded, be-daggered gentleman at the right, listening to the priest (who must have performed the ceremony) is too aloof to be newly married; he must be the local squire...