Word: calloused
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...years. Declared Dr. Douglass: "Christians who combine the spiritual and the social are needed [in China], especially to plan and demonstrate and set up norms for religious education. It is of the utmost importance that these two things be not separated . . . that spirituality shall prove itself not sterile or callous to social suffering and injustice...
...calculated breach of contract!" shrilled the Financial Times which added: "The word default has an ugly sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers at large are in the legislative saddle and Roosevelt can but paddle along holding on to the tail." British...
...There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance...
...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
...stodgy study of a gloomy man of business (George Bancroft). An irascible and exaggerated enthusiasm for his shipbuilding concern makes him, at first, a monster. He wants nothing but a son to carry on his name and when his wife dies, in furnishing him with one, he shows a callous gratification. The story plods on, a pony with the manners of a percheron, while the son dies (of a cold caught at a ship's christening), while the shipbuilder's neglected daughter marries a minor employe, while the shipbuilder himself marries a precarious blonde and gives...