Word: blased
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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...
...pitch of enthusiasm cheered wildly as the first tackle was made, while up in the press box, typewriters clicked busily. It was a contest between two closely matched teams and many hopes, reputations and even dollars rested on the uncertain outcome. But seated next to our correspondent was a blase young thing, sweetly dressed in red, wearing a fetching red hat, with a red feather protruding from the back of it at an even more fetching angle. However, despite her apparent Cantabridgian sympathies, her eye was not on the game, as she looked curiously from side to side. Her attention...
...King's Proctor, Sir Thomas Barnes. To this official, a personal appointee of the Sovereign, spiteful persons annually send thousands of anonymous letters. Some of these the King's Proctor turns over to detectives. Some of their snooping turns up facts discreditable enough to impress the blase Proctor. When much impressed he drafts a report to the Attorney General and by a process often much like drawing a card at random from a pack, some of the King's Proctor's reports are acted...
...Love Before Breakfast" years to be too, too smart. It is one of these pictures that tries conscientiously to be conscience-free. Whenever the sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have...