Word: owlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torrential expressions of Fritz Kuhn's feelings. Wrote the Daily News's owlish reporters: "[The letters] were the masterly efforts of the man of action who-although in the throes of passion-remembers that life is real and life is earnest. In one passage he wrote Florence that he loved her with his whole soul and body and was about to have his teeth fixed...
This crack appeared in the bank's Letter, whose monthly summaries of business trends bring statistical kudos to a young Economist-Vice President, 45-year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...
...Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever owlish, Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner was also there...
...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...