Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Communist Party gave a remarkable exhibition of hauteur. Like the aristocratic Southern lady who sneered "Newspaper talk" when told that the Titanic had gone down, Party members have steadily sniffed when evidence offered at Washington charged Communists with espionage, treason, counterfeiting, slugging, murder, double-dealing, graft, wrecking, sabotage, forgery, as well as considerable mental and political confusion. Beaming over recent Russian successes in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, Communists were in no mood to talk about the revelations of Congressman Martin Dies's Committee investigating un-American activities...
Five years ago, and with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
...rest him), or father's money (good old Dad). Or perhaps even other people's money (poor suckers). But the sheen is still present, although better disguised. Sometimes it is in the face, where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch...
Britain and France, apart from their main purpose of getting technical co-operation started between their two navies-just as the British and French armies drew together in close technical cooperation during the World War-adopted toward Italy last week an attitude in which surface politeness was blended with hauteur. The great Democracies did not join Leftist Spain in crying "Pirate!" at Il Duce, indeed they carefully sent to Rome copies of every project they adopted or discussed, even held up release of one of these to the press until it could be scanned by Premier Mussolini. To most observers...
...camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than the pen." Indian journalists, accustomed like English journalists to official hauteur and snubs, imperceptibly warmed to a new Viceroy who said: "Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw. . . . I intend to do my utmost to give them such assistance as properly...