Word: bookishly
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...Oldsters gabble of huntin' and fishin', aware that nothing much else has happened there since the conflict which they refer to as the War Between the States. Impecunious, somnolent, dignified, Port Royal would be just the place for a company of scholars with little money but much bookish fervor, and last week that was just what began to assemble there...
This appointment made Washington gasp. Mr. Pomerene, a solemn, bookish man with a Websterian manner, whose hobby is growing early table corn, is not a banker. He is not a famed executive. While he made a good Senator, his name, it was claimed, was not familiar enough to inspire nation-wide confidence...
...Warner). Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel would have been a better picture if its story had been told in a manner more pictorial, less bookish. Yet it is the best cinema in which Barbara Stanwyck has appeared to date. She is Selina Peake, whose father, a Chicago gambler, gets shot in the course of business. He leaves her with an expensive education, no money, a belief that "life is so much velvet...
...good committee assignments (especially Foreign Relations, Agriculture). He is even chairman of one minor committee (Printing). Theoretically the most independent man in the Senate, he can generally be found lining up with the Insurgent Republicans on economic questions. As a Senator he represents a bookish type who carries no flaming banner of Liberalism pellmell into the midst of a political fight. His largest single legislative accomplishment was getting through a bill providing for a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi with an appropriation...
Governor Murray is a bookish man. His library of some 5,000 volumes is a precious possession. His reading is deep, wide, mostly classical. Many a visitor leaves him with a sense of astonishment at his erudition, his ability to quote and date and cite. Constitutional government is his specialty. The late great Champ Clark, observing him in the House, called him one of the greatest constitutional experts and parliamentarians ever to sit in Congress...