Word: unconcern
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...years the U. S. Government had been trying to get him just as it got Chicago's Alphonse Capone. Federal investigators, working day and night, uncovered evidence showing that he owed the Treasury $1,111,000 in taxes. When his trial began bull-necked Irving Wexler affected bored unconcern. Hands laced across his paunch, he dozed while lawyers droned. But spry, boyish Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey soon jolted him wide awake with 140 witnesses and 900 exhibits carefully tracing the history and ramifications of Wexler's beer business. He showed that while Wexler was reporting an income...
...much greater historic interest is the physical condition of a U. S. President. When he goes to Warm Springs for treatment, TIME, the historian, must say what for. Were Mr. Roosevelt sensitive on the subject, the case might be altered. But his whole attitude is one of gallant unconcern...
...President-elect can walk in his braces, without crutch, stick or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, I guess the Presidency won't." The Man of the Year's attitude toward his affliction is one of gallant unconcern. After his November election he went to Warm Springs where he addressed others there taking the cure: "We've shown that we people here have determined to get over the small physical handicaps which after all don't amount to a hill of beans...
...have had a tradition for interest in national and international affairs since the reorganization of Prussia under Baron Stein in 1808. Extracurricular activities, unknown in the Fatherland, absorb a large percentage of the undergraduate's time in this country, which might be devoted to discussion. Notwithstanding, the attitude of unconcern adopted by college men toward politics and foreign affairs is surprising to those familiar with the more mature outlook of European Universities. This unconcern is exemplified by the meagre interest displayed in the Model League of Nations...
Down Boylston street, the bands swing along with beating drums and strident horns. A hobbing mass of heads, red feathers and blue, fill the street from curb to curb old men and young men, girls of '89 and '29 jostle one another with that unconcern born of a singleness of purpose and a forgetting of time and space. For over thirty years some of these men have strode along on a certain. November afternoon to witness John Harvard and the Bull Dog play their game, not only for supremacy in strength, but supremacy, in sportsmanship. Others are in the flush...