Word: individualist
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...course, there are some who think this is fortunate. The recluse-scholar and the complete individualist do not find it a congenial place: tending to cliques, the majority of Mastodons enjoy a good time, combining bibulous enthusiasm with a paradoxical apathy...
Twipe, Twipe, Twipe. Miss West's present political temper worries her Laborite friends. "The individualist," she wrote recently, "is being looted by his own country as if it were an enemy." She has lately been raising the dust with her articles (in the Evening Standard) on the Fascist open-air meetings in London and the political use that the Communists are making out of them. She heard herself denounced by one little soapboxer who, unfortunately, could not pronounce the letter R. He rose to a climax with the cry: "I want to say that Miss Webecca West...
...same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill...
...largest minority stockholder in G.A.F. (the Government owns 97%). Rand, maker of photographic as well as office equipment, seeks control of G.A.F., whose 3,500 patents make it the richest of all plums in Alien Property's hands. Chairman and President James H. Rand, 60, a brisk, bulky individualist who will go the limit to have his own way, loudly charged that the Government's Alien Property Custodian had been entirely wrong in seizing G.A.F. in the first place soon after World War II began...
...handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago...