Word: bookworm
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...Oriental religions (Eliot later devoted two years to their study). Bertrand Russell taught him logic and later introduced him to the London literary world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls seeing tall, dapper Tom Eliot for the first time reeling out of the office of the Harvard Lampoon, where a punch party was in roaring progress...
...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...