Word: blasing
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...Chicagoans were blase about Mayor Cermak's crime drive they at least felt sure they had an honest man at the head of the city's 6,500 policemen. Oldtime newshawks used to say: "If there's an honest cop in this town, it's Allman." Tall, lean, grey, he is 56, has been a policeman 31 years, a captain since 1917. He is called "Iron Man" because of a legend that he never smiles, is an excellent marksman with his pistol. A student of criminology, he is brainier than most policemen. No less honest...
...Count Bethlen grew highly excited and said that Count Karolyi must succeed in making a Cabinet, at least for a time. Count Karolyi dutifully tried again, finally succeeded by taking the thankless post of Finance Minister himself. Newspapers called his Cabinet a "shadowgraph" of Count Bethlen's Cabinet. Blase Prague expected to see the fluttering brown burgee of Bethlen's mustache leading another Hungarian Cabinet before long...
...pursues a lady to her apartment. His attractive wife (Dorothy Mackaill) endeavors to get even by accompanying an admirer on a night-boat trip. The separation that follows is adjusted in a scene that puts Dorothy Mackaill into pajamas. All this is accomplished in the moderne environment and respectably blase manner which have been mastered by Hollywood producers so recently. The Good Bad Girl (Columbia). The penalties of an antisocial career are here set forth in the case of a well-intentioned country girl (Mae Clarke) who becomes friendly with a gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections...
...work nearly perfect, but just why did the girl go into dinner alone and what was the point of the scene anyway, and do all German movies have so many unintelligible jokes in them? The Vagabond kept up with the struggle for about two reels, then lapsed into a blase indifference to the importance of the dialogue. For is not all true dramatic art acting, and not a mere mouthing of words? At least Mr. Chaplin says so, and the Vagabond felt dimly grateful to him for the idea...
Harvard men are snobbish, aesthetic, indifferent, blase, indolent, sloppily dressed, and proud of an anglophile accent. The novelty of such conjectures by these devotees of James and Neitzsche is no whit more surprising than their dictum that the breed infesting the environs of Cambridge is also democratic, lacking in artistic appreciation, interested in life, naive, go-getters, and good American boys. They are attired faultlessly. That is the indictment of Dartmouth and the sisters sufficiently far across the common. Dartmouth, according to the consensus of opinion expressed by its contemporaries is one long Wah-hoo-Wah plus a touching love...