8 November 2013

blasé

[blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey]

adjective

– indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Origin:
1810–20; < French, past participle of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perhaps < Dutch blasen to blow; see blast

Synonyms
apathetic, jaded, cloyed, sated, glutted, surfeited, world-weary.

Today’s aphorism

Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face.

– Victor Hugo

On this day

8 November 1836 – birth of Milton Bradley, U.S. board-game maker, credited with launching the board-game industry. Died 30 May 1911.

8 November 1847 – birth of Bram Stoker, Irish novellist, author of ‘Dracula’. Died 20 April 1912.

8 November 1960 – 43 year old, John F. Kennedy wins the presidential election and becomes the youngest President of the United States of America.

8 November 1973 – In Brisbane, Australia, a home-made bomb is placed on a teacher’s desk. It detonates, killing one student, injuring 8 others, while the teacher loses both hands.