Word: blased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place the Class of 1931 is a new class: new things are different and therefore by perfect syllogistic deduction the Class of 1931 is different. There is a second opportunity to confound the blase by pointing out the fact that hope springs eternal in the human breast. Together these principles should satisfactorily establish the unique splendor of the incoming Freshman group in Harvard College. This once assumed and secure in its own virginity the Class may safely prepare to ascend the heighths. The trail is not too rocky, its slopes not too steep but what it is surmountable...
...That the blase dinner guests who tell this story are being more apt than risqué, was indicated by a report last week from Secretary William M. Jardine's watchful Department of Agriculture. U. S. horses, said the report, and U. S. mules, are decreasing rapidly in numbers. Their population is 17% less than in 1920. The next five years will show a 30% or 40% reduction of their present scanty number. Breeding, warned the Department, must be stimulated to meet what is already an acute shortage on farms where machinery is impracticable...
...second successive year. Spectators applauded when Lamprecht stopped Paul Haviland of Yale in the morning round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means of three consecutive 34's. That same hot day saw another title retained at Merion. Edward G. Chandler of the University of California captured the intercollegiate tennis crown for the second consecutive year...
...dramatic, a fondness for surprises truly theatrical, and also a practical ability in taking care of himself which leads to a triumphant conclusion. By providentially running into a strip of static, the fate of his expedition was shrouded in mystery sufficient to enlist the interest of the most blase...
Other motors followed them. They contained pressmen whose blase hearts were a-thumping. Was Carol, after dwelling sub rosa in Milan with Mme. Lupescu for nearly two months (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), about to return to Bucharest? Was he going to resume his abdicated rank? Would Mme. Lupescu attempt to go with him, or would she merely...