Word: blase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Definitely psychasthenic, manicdepressive, dementia praccox, parctic personalities with a large does of inferiority complex" was the verdict of Archibald B. Butterfield, informed that two Princeton psychologists had found Harvard men to be "anobbish, blase, conceited, intellectual, and socialite...
...Harvard men are snobbish, blase, conceited, intellectual, socialite-- and certainly not he-mannish" is the verdict reached by two Princeton psychologists, from a pool of 380 students in the "Big Four" college: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
...members of the Footlight Club. Having only two hours in which to work, Mr. Kaufman and Miss Ferber have made an amazing number of young women stand out as real persons. The secret is probably that heavy lines and strong colors are used: there is the witty cynic, the blase adventures, the man-hater, the sweet young thing from the South, the inescapable talker, the pair of mediocre pals, the dancer of irrepressible gaiety and the lonesome victim of melancholia. The summary is only partial. If Miss Bennett is not sufficient inducement, it's worth your while...
Bored Paris correspondents know that more than one blase second-string Continental newswoman gets her best interviews by giving herself and thinks little of the exchange, but they listened to the shooting diarist's quickly hired Paris lawyer. His story was that Ambassador de- Chambrun had broken off a French woman's great romance with the Italian Dictator, and so naturally she shot him. "Naturellement, Messieurs! Mark you, gentlemen, the great love of her life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official...
According to Chief John J. Darvis of Engine Company 15 the first fire was caused by wooden studding which had been built too close to a defective chimney leading up from a restaurant below. The blase, which never got beyond a suffocating smudge, was quickly controlled...