Word: aloofness
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...Against propaganda the Swiss have shown the healthy, aloof instincts of a people who have known and loved freedom long...
...shiny was the Cohan professional image that few people realized how aloof was the human being behind it. Cohan left the limelight when he left the theater. When he wrote Twenty Years on Broadway, he never once mentioned either of his wives or any of his four children. Though he called everybody "kid," he confessed that he had just five friends, "and I'm a bit dubious about one of them." His greatest love, outside of his mother, whom he phoned every day no matter where he was, was the one other thing as American as himself-baseball...
...naval base, a handy coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
...MacLeish arguments for the purchase of government securities. They are well known and convincing enough to all. Everyone from the announcers for the soap operas to the roving official propagandists for the Treasury Department are dinning them in America's ears morning, noon, and night. Still Harvard men remain aloof, and ignore what the man in the street realizes is vital to the maintenance of our way of life. While the laborer gives ten per cent of his salary in bonds and stamps, undergraduates go to the movies and the Eliot House Grill...
Impromptu. But at the last minute a few white ladies changed their minds about being aloof. Led by Y.W.C.A. Secretary Mrs. Lula Carr, they met the First Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill...