Word: owlish
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...Looking owlish, Emerson Boyles observed: "Weird. If Dickinson is not Governor...
...figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, mousy little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, coarse, Jew-baiting Julius Streicher, Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. Inspector Himmler will be there too, but the weak, fleshy-chinned, owlish Gestapo chief, looking more like an Austrian Gymnasium teacher than a leader of men, will be the least conspicuous of them...
Enthroned above all were the heads of the two Houses, President John Nance Garner of the Senate (looking more than usually owlish) and Speaker William Bankhead. Below them were ranged President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, House Majority Leader Rayburn, and a tireless Representative from Manhattan for whom the sesquicentennial of the U. S. has been a three-year field day, Director Sol Bloom of the Joint Committee on Arrangements...
...people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable. And because you saw them thus, curiously enough you became more fond of them. ..." Simply written and often moving, Those First Affections gives the impression that Sarah's father was unlucky in everything but his owlish, tactful, kind-hearted daughter...
...each time the Rhine was traversed on a perky little ferry smelling of fresh paint. Journalists in the two hotels could not telephone directly to each other, as all lines were reserved for officials, so they called London for news from the correspondent at the other hotel. Cracked owlish German wits: "It is the Watch on the Rhine." Rhinelanders gathered on both banks to watch, kept scores of Zeiss binoculars trained on the ferry...