Word: monkishly
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...almost fabulous sum, is not unpleasant. He arranges his books in a wainscoted study, gets marmalade for his breakfast toast free of charge, and is left to enjoy himself pretty much as he will. He may take any attitude toward his position, considering it a comfortable, comparatively inactive, monkish life; or he may realize all its possibilities, mingling with students, pouring a few ideas into the impressionable void. For the best resident tutors, men who take the second attitude, the future holds little. Being a good fellow, drinking cocktails adolescents, does not write books, further research, or win a professorial...
...course of his monkish aspirations Kaoru meets venerable Prince Hachi, who lives in retreat on his country estate. There they study heavenly philosophy together until the tinkling of a lute and a 13-stringed zithern behind the paper doors apprises Kaoru that there are daughters in the house. From that moment his elaborate ceremonial courtship, in which every little movement has a meaning of its own, begins. But it is only long after the death of Prince Hachi. who consigns his daughters to Kaoru's guardianship, that he even sees the girls...
...entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main the will of Poet d'Annunzio continues...
...there?" cried a solemn, monkish voice last week, responding to a thunderous knock on the great door of the crypt beneath Vienna's Church of the Capuchins. "Who is there...
...Scotia in 1876, son of a sea-captain and a farmer's daughter. He has studied in Paris, practiced in the U. S. for 30 years (newspaper cartoons, stained glass windows, smartchart layouts for Vogue, oils of every description). Large and athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman's toe when I show mine...