Word: offish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives of the House of Morgan. The reporters favored instead as prospective chairman Chicago's drawling "Mel" Traylor...
...handed welcome to the boys of the South and West has resulted in greatly increased representation from these sections, and these new boys are ranking high in their classes. The new arrangement and other evidence of friendly interest are gradually breaking down the feeling that the Eastern institutions are 'offish', complacent, and super-conservative in their attitude...
Even the German delegation was declared to have tacitly endorsed this principle, last week, as a result of repeated personal conferences between Manhattan's sociable yet determined Owen D. Young and Berlin's somewhat brusque and offish Dr. Hjalmar Schacht-he who only last fortnight embroiled the committee by suggesting that its august proceedings amounted to "shady horse-trading...
Helma was an offish, disdainful girl, daughter of a lawyer in Byzantium, Ohio. She went to the local college where a freshwater esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went...
...learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University of Gottingen, and Professor Gustav Hertz, of Halle University; 1926 Physics prize to Professor Jean B. Perrin, University of Paris; 1925 Chemistry prize...