Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked Wellesley she seldom knows. But she is apt to feel superior to Wellesley's rivals (as rivals feel superior to Wellesley). According to the girls, Radcliffe tends toward "the creepy, arty bookworm." Smith, some think, "makes big with the party type of girls." They don't care very much about Vassar, either: "Vassar makes girls into businesswomen." Wellesleyites prefer to think of themselves as "just well-rounded...
...bookworm himself, who was happiest poking about his own stacks, Jacobs didn't think New Orleans read enough. In 1946, he found, only about 43,000 citizens in a city of 600,000 held library cards. He felt ashamed every time he was reminded that Louisiana had the highest illiteracy rate...
Adventure. Gable & Garson in a bosun-meets-bookworm comedy...
Adventure. Gable & Garson in a bosun-meets-bookworm comedy...
Adventure. Gable & Garson in a bosun-meets-bookworm comedy...