Word: owlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick decisions. From his mother he inherits graciousness, sentimentality. Well-liked throughout the organization, "Bill" has honestly tried to apply himself to being publisher of the New York American within the limits imposed by a crown-princely aura and his father's incurable autocracy. Also he understudies bald, owlish Edmond David ("Cobbie") Coblentz as editorial chief of all Hearst morning papers. His enthusiasms are genuine. And if the American's capture of the old World's classified advertising and the development of a lively "opposite editorial page'' are not to be credited to him solely...
...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
Cases still pending last week were in Denver, Jersey City, N. J. and Washington where the Post, copying a biennial custom of righteous Washington Star, had begun a "crusade." Owlish District Attorney Leo A. Rover bought one of the offending magazines in a drugstore, read it on his way home. Whatever his first reactions may have been, the effect of finding his young daughter reading the same magazine was galvanic. He ordered the arrest of 150 newsdealers, six of whom were to be tried this week. In partial defense against the obscenity charge Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. could point...
...personages who were to attend the christening, four were most acutely concerned: quiet, young Commander Rosendahl, about to receive the Akron as his command, a veteran of 3,333 hr. dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...