Word: maidishness
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...maidish, a stickler for "gentlemanly" conduct, Jones insists on immaculate all-white court clothes, impeccable court manners. Of his boys he says: "I'm more interested in how they live than in how they play." When he refused to back a Mexican lad named Gonzales, who could beat Herbie Flam, Jones was called a snob. He countered: "That's not true. I dropped him because he wouldn't go to school...
...contrast to tall, cadaverous Dr. Albert. The late, great Jane Addams always was houseguest of the Fred Taussigs when she went to St. Louis. Because he is so strict and meticulous in his clinical work, students and younger gynecologists who work with Dr. Fred in clinics consider him old-maidish. Internist Albert is considered to have a larger practice than Gynecologist Fred...
...Author. Willa Sibert Cather looks and talks like a kindly, sensible Middle-Western housewife, stout, low-heeled, good at marketing and mending. Her motherly hats are fluttered by no mercurial wings. A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity. Though you would never guess it from her voice she comes from Virginia, but her father moved the family to a Nebraska ranch, near Red Cloud, when she was eight. Instead of going to school she rode her pony around the country, getting acquainted with...
...award was a relief. For at least a decade even the Swedish press has been asking. "Why not Mann?" In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
Boccaccio and Havelock Ellis are being withheld from the student body! So says the November Advocate in an angry and lengthy editorial on "the fussy and old-maidish policy of Widener Library in the matter of lending books to the undergraduates...