Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting as the truth-between-the-lines. Says he: 'I will confess that I think of myself as being entirely New England and having an almost proprietary knowledge of it. You know the kind of thing I mean-a struggle with myself not to be a little bit Olympian when other people talk about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual...
Oats in Gas Tank. Amid these partisan attempts to create a personality issue out of the Speaker, Pundit Walter Lippmann delivered his Olympian opinion in the New York Herald Tribune...
Speaking as usual without effort or gestures, Mr. Chamberlain took his time, began with a tribute to his famed predecessor Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, a choleric Free Trader who attacks the present Chancellor's tariff policies on any & every occasion. With the Olympian condescension of a Chamberlain, the new Chancellor declared last week: "Lord Snowden's last budget is a model example of secure but sound and sane finance. We are now £9,000,000 better off than Lord Snowden anticipated...
...Rose, Princeton graduate (1928), of Columbus, Ohio, who next autumn will go to Washington, receive from the U. S. Government $3,000 for a year's work and follow in the footsteps of 25 men who say they have "sat for a year at the feet of an Olympian...
Banker Traylor, of course, does not "trade," "speculate," or "scalp" in the market. As from an Olympian distance the president of Chicago's First National Bank declared: "I would urge consideration of the complete abolishment of floor trading which, as I am informed, has about it most of the characteristics of plain crap shooting (guffaws), and few, if any, more redeeming features than that delightful Ethiopian pastime." (Cheers. Of the 1,000 business leaders present some 600 were Americans...