Word: calloused
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TIME agrees with Mr. Armstrong that a characterization of the "trade" of the Marines as "mud and alcohol" is unfair. TIME'S dramatic critic, straining inadvisedly for epigram, became thoughtless, careless, callous. No offence was intended. But, since an offence was committed, an apology is herewith tendered...
...best thing to do was to enter into the spirit of the pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot...
...seagoing hack; even Jane Demonstration went in search of love to her doom. But to Mr. Aristotle, Spring only brought despair-he had suffered many minor indignities and now, at last, he heard that a handsome young puppet was to take his place with the fascinating but callous Annabelle Lee. Maddened by jealousy and shame, after a pitiful attempt at reconciliation, he extracted his wife's one shoe-button eye with a pair of shears and committed suicide by leaping out of the window. The event caused little stir.. Mrs. Holly and Christopher Lane were married and soon...
...Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that it occasioned only little surprise when a recent French Yellow Book was filled with quotations from Mr. Lloyd-George, who was busy at the time of publication in most unmeasured denunciation of France...
...will unite all Harvard men? Yes, of course we want it; but we need not seek it in those places where standards are just emerging from the chaos of educational invention. We have it here in that subtle influence of tradition that no man can escape, no matter how callous; we have it in the common belief that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development...