Word: essayistic
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...books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...
...essay from it among the lore of his Christmas gift. "Oddly Enough" may well be the first of a series not alone reminiscent of Hazlitt and Sterne and Addison and all the others necessary to make this review "literary" but even suggestive of the avowed success as a colloquial essayist of one David McCord...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, son of the famed poet and essayist: "Many times during my summer vacation at Beverly Farms, Mass., I had to sit docilely while my portrait was being painted. It is not done yet. I became impatient, demanded: 'How long will this continue? I have something else to do.' Then my wife told the painter: 'Pay no attention to him. Go right ahead and take as long as you like. If he were not here with you he would be over there in the corner reading naughty French...
...country, where he was school captain and a prominent footballer. He thence proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, coming into residence in 1922, and taking his degree in June, 1926. For three years of this time at Magdalene, Mr. Fordham came under the Mastership of Dr. A.C. Benson, the popular essayist and novel-writer, whose generosity and personal charm were so highly valued by his college...
...that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though one may suspect from his strong classical bent that he would prefer the latter result...