Word: bookworm
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...whose life was devoted to automobiles, young Chrysler, unlike young Vanderbilt, Labrot and Brady, was never taken to race tracks when he was a kid. A bookworm and esthete, he dabbled in book publishing and other arty ventures while still in his teens. Suddenly, last summer, he got the urge to own a string of race horses, went to Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer...
Isabel Paterson has all the best qualities of a chipmunk, including a love of stone walls and a sidelong, quizzical look. The resemblance would be still more marked if chipmunks wore lorgnettes. Her impish weekly literary column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...
...members are divided into two chapters: Alpha (for All-Americans) and Rho (for also-rans). To become an Alpha and wear the All-America insignia (a shield with two crossed megaphones) is as great a distinction among cheerleaders as getting a Phi Beta Kappa key is to a bookworm...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
Athlete or Bookworm...