Word: aloofness
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...other people. When the ponies pranced onto the field, there were only some 3,000 spectators in the grandstand or fanning themselves in the boxes. Reasons: The heat was 90° in the shade; the privilege of baking in one of the boxes cost $5.50; Midwick was aloof...
...named Parris Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father...
...Nebraska, where the primary election was expected to be a straw in the wind of this year's farm votes, ripe and eager was Thomas E. Dewey, silent and aloof was his rival. Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Twice "Buster" Dewey had invaded Nebraska, speechifying, conferring, shaking every hand within reach. Senator Vandenberg, though he was backed by most of the regular party leaders, had made it clear that any nomination must come to him "from the deliberative judgment of the American people." The best his campaign managers could think up was to bluster that young Mr. Dewey was pushing...
...aloof, publicity-unwise Harold Stanley cracked out the home run of the week for his side, the old-line investment bankers. The pitch that onetime Catcher Stanley (Yale '08) leaned on went sizzling over the head of onetime Third Baseman Leon Henderson (Swarthmore '20), SECommissioner and most articulate anti-banker member of TNEC...
...appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree and it takes Him over 100 years." To the Chattanooga Woman's Press Club, Secretary of State Cordell Hull was less aloof: "Assuming that the trees are the ones that I know, I join with you ... in earnestly urging that they shall not be destroyed...