Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week this little man, Jose Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...
...inquisitors regretted it exceedingly, too. They had to ask Col. Stewart to take the stand again next day. Again he professed ignorance and unconcern as to how Sinclair and his associates* of the Continental Trading Co. "rigged the deal...
...drive with the greatest unconcern...
...Significance. Easy-going foreigners wondered vaguely, "Why all this fuss about the Tyrolese? Aren't they the people who wear those funny little hats?" To such paragons of unconcern an embittered Tyrolese might have answered as follows: "We of the Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among...
Occasionally the crowds along the way applauded, but there was neither cheering nor jeering. The parade marched and was reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months ago-a national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or two before-a parade of the Washington and Maryland Klans...