Word: blase
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amiable married couple, the Proctors, who invite the invalid to their home come under the first category. Both parts are weak, particularly when it comes to registering emotion. This is especially true of Mrs. Proctor, portrayed by City Lewis. She loses and regains her husband in a rather blase manner, as if she knows that everything is going to turn out all right eventually and does not feel in worth worrying about too much. Their big reuniting clinch is quite casual...
...seem to be blase it is only a pose. Why, just last Saturday over 100 of us made the one o'clock train to New York and sundry points. Nuff said...
Horrible grimaces and irrepressible feet may yet take Negro Pianist Dorothy Donegan places where her ten amazing fingers would not get her so fast. Wrote Down Beat, the blase semimonthly gospel of some 47,000 U.S. jazz fans: "She is, to us, the ideal in piano stylings. . . . We beckon to Hazel Scott to learn how the classics are swung. We invite Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, Joe Sullivan, Billy Kyle, all of them, to see phenomenal piano work...
Thus the lone attraction will be the six-event ski contest, always packed with enough excitement and thrills however, to keep even the most blase individuals interested in the goings-on over the weekend. The heavy snowfall last night, added to the previous seven-inch base, will give the runners perfect conditions if the temperature stays...
This weekend I'm going back up into the Coffin in the Sky and pretend I'm an assistant cheerleader for the Harvards. It takes more than a pack of super-indifferent, super-blase sports staffs to subdue the Future Old Grad...