Word: bookishly
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...thin-faced, bookish Oxford graduate of 23, working in South Africa under the great liberal imperialist Lord Milner. he had absorbed Milner's vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League...
...Read a Book), in a keynote address at the American Booksellers Convention, damned solitary reading as comparable to solitary drinking, clarioned a call for "bookish conviviality...
...notch reorganization jurist as Judge Robert Patterson in the job of unraveling the I. R. T. He also defended the Scottsboro boys in the U. S. Supreme Court. Relatively free from political complications is Co., really just a set of very complicated books, made to order for bookish Trustee Pollak...
Promptly in Ottawa bookish Canadian Governor General Baron Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, both adept quotation spotters, expressed themselves as "most interested in the authorship of the quotation," but stumped. Cried Canadian Parliamentary Librarian Francis Hardy: "I have looked in every known work of appropriate reference without finding...
Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...