Word: owlish
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...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...
...time. At the French Embassy in Albert Gate House, Hyde Park, a great assemblage of dignitaries rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly, the U. S. Ambassador was credited with having prepared...
Ages went by, and then came the coffee house with its milder potation, but no less owlish frequenters. Mighty Johnson leveled with his catapultic shots his enemy's defense, and set himself up as the literary pope. Authors and books received the most attention in these clubs of the time, but Johnson saw fit to take a random shot at Berkley's "non-substantiality of matter" theory, and shook it with a mere foot blow...
...Come owlish and strange replies...