Word: blas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasé Washington, OSRD is regarded almost with awe. Significantly, this is less because of its scientific accomplishments than because of its smooth operation. OSRD is one of the few executive agencies that in four turbulent years has had no internal quarrels, no tiffs with Congress, no reorganization; its original line-up of top men is still intact. Of course, OSRD, being virtually a military secret, is also virtually invisible. But it is not completely invisible; and much of the credit for its immunity from attack has been due to OSRD's able, self-effacing boss, Vannevar Bush...
...Contrary to prevailing psychiatric opinion, there is no particular type of alcoholic personality. Some are "decadent drinkers" -blasé heirs of rundown families; others are "impassioned and discordant drinkers," who are torn by conflicting emotions and "drink to forget." Others are just stupid, or just sociable
Booth acted in most of Shakespeare's dramas as well as others like "The Fool's Revenge," "Brutus," by John Howard Payne, and "Ruy Blas...