Word: bookbag
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half inches tall" and a cloth long enough to hide his legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always attended him. Cross-drafts, coughing and similar annoyances received no tolerance. Before speaking, he would give the audience a minute or two in which to do all the coughing or sneezing they intended to do in the next hour...
...generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells...