Word: bookishly
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...pulchritude exceeds my mental endowment, which exceeds that of my bookish husband. As to my other natural endowments, I enumerate...
Foyle now spends less time at his bookshop, leaves the day-to-day operations to son Richard, 42, and to daughter Christina, 40, who has inherited her father's flair for bookish ballyhoo. She presides over Foyle's monthly literary lunches, where new books are launched and authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw...
...Take good care of her," were Trotsky's dying words to his friends. "She has been with me for a long time." Natalia Sedova, daughter of a bourgeois Ukrainian family, was a student in Paris when, in 1902, she met the bookish, intolerant young intellectual who spent his time playing chess in smoky cafés, dreaming violent dreams of world revolution. For the next 38 years, she followed Leon Trotsky around the world-Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the U.S., Norway, Germany, Turkey, Russia -into exile and to the gates of many a prison...
...gaunt, bookish fellow named Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was presented last week with a problem calculated to curl a man's nerve ends up like watch springs: he inherited $650,000 from his mother. Under ordinary circumstances, he might well have kissed his fingers and done a buck & wing. But Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was forced to remember something: 18 years ago, finding himself with a million dollars, he had given it all away, and he had sworn he never wanted anything to do with money again...
When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...