Word: detachedness
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Mrs. Benét is tall, pale, with classical features and a detached manner. She looks very young indeed, years younger than she probably is; but she is one of those women who, when she reaches forty, will still appear to be just under or just over thirty. She should have...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said...
Not so very long ago Hungary was, to the happy masses, simply a place where wars started. Even such tiny fragments of the masses as detached themselves temporarily for cultural adventuring in Europe seldom penetrated the interior as far as Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with...
Graduate work by way of preparation is almost essential, partly because only the unusually gifted can go very far without it, and partly--as a corollary because the colleges primarily seek those who have had it. There are, of course, successful teachers in colleges who have not secured the Ph.D...
Owen Johnson is thoroughly of New York City. He likes it. He likes its people even though he may recognize their charming weaknesses. He enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life...