Word: owlish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presumably this circular reminder meant that some Ambassadors or Ministers have recently been so obtuse as to bid plump and pudgy Dr. Stresemann to their 9 o'clock banquets, forgetting entirely that his once bibulous and night-owlish habits have completely altered since he barely escaped Death (TIME, May 28) from a prolonged and acute kidney attack...
Prince Chichibu, short, lithe, athletic, sallow-skinned, once studied at Oxford. During his vacations he scampered up Swiss Alps, peered from mountain tops through his owlish tortoise shell spectacles...
...huge plurality in the Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...
Rolling out over the Florida Keys was mysteriously restful. At Key West, the sun had long gone down. The train went on a siding and, after more cinema, all except a few detectives and night-owlish newsgatherers, slept soundly...
...Morrow represented the politically bewildered East and high finance. Newsgatherers waited eagerly for Mr. Morrow to come away after interviews at which it was certain there would have been give and take on the renowned Coolidge "choice" for 1928. But Mr. Morrow came forth in owlish silence, boarded a train for his ranch in Idaho, left the world none the wiser...