Word: aloofness
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...began to torment her guests by emphasizing their stupidities. Niles did not know why he suddenly began a love affair with his cousin. Victoria did not know why she began a loveless affair with a doctor. Their neighbors, who watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back...
Except for the beating they took on the picture, other Manhattan papers and the press associations were close behind the News. Even the usually sedate, aloof New York Times took down its hair, assigned crack Reporter Meyer Berger to the yarn, gave it top-of-Page-One display. And for the first time in its haughty history, the Times let words like homosexuality creep into its columns. All over the U.S. newspapers made room for the kind of news most people like to read. One day's News had 251 column-inches devoted to sex & crime, 145 devoted...
...Tiber's west bank, behind the gates of the Vatican, Pope Pius XII, silent and aloof, is a virtual prisoner of the Nazis. The Wehrmacht polices the Vatican's entrances and exits, even struts across the colonnaded piazza of St. Peter. The tall, picturesque Swiss Guards, organized by Pope Julius II in 1505, have put aside their ancient halberds for modern rifles...
...Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...
...directly at the operators, accusing them of failure to bargain collectively with the union and refusal to make counter proposals when they refused the union's demands, something which the NLRB has called an unfair labor practice. He pointed out that the operators had throughout the negotiations maintained an aloof, purely legalistic attitude, supporting themselves on the evasive contention that under the Economic Stabilization Act and the various allied executive orders the miners were not entitled to any wage adjustments and that the matter should go to the WLB without further discussion. The men who own coal mines should know...