Word: aloofness
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...Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...
...Have and Have Not is neither an action picture nor a Bogart picture. Its story is, in fact, just a loosely painted background for a kind of romance which the movies have all but forgotten about-the kind in which the derelict sweethearts are superficially aloof but essentially hot as blazes, and seem to do even their kissing out of the corners of their mouths. This particular romance is decorated by some sinister yet friendly bits of low-life café atmosphere. Hoagy Carmichael's performance as a cokey-looking ivory-prowler is especially useful for some spidery Caribbean...
...into Japan's Samurai class, Toyama worked for recovery of Japan's military prestige,, became so feared that newspapers printed asterisks instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling to kill even a mosquito...
Cartoonists, to Arms! Some of the columnists who were embroiled deeply in the Term III campaign were oddly aloof. Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson seemed preoccupied with the larger world. But Walter Winchell campaigned indefatigably, rallying café society to the Term IV cause with a rapid-fire retelling of anti-Dewey stories...
...Irish immigrants (his father was a Boston Elevated blacksmith), tall, rugged, liberal Archbishop Gushing has spent all of his 49 years in Boston. Unlike Cardinal O'Connell, who was aloof and often absent from Boston, the new Archbishop has always kept his latchstring out, always stuck close to his job. That job, since 1929, has been the direction of Boston's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and Gushing is a name known & loved in the farthest Catholic missions...