Word: sawyerish
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...solitary tremolo has also been heard, the soft-shoe shuffle, the wistful Tom Sawyerish scuffing of the stage boards that says Americans experience an isolating loneliness as if by the provenance of birth...
...candlelight, the brothers gathered in the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With swelling pride, they chanted occult jargon and Tom Sawyerish vows. With stern mien, one night last week they launched an ancient rite: the not-so-gentle art of hazing new members before accepting them into the fraternity with its friendships and parties...
...behind Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered and invariably beaten in a fight, a failing he later remedied by taking boxing lessons. As Baruch recalls it, it was a Tom Sawyerish boyhood in which he splashed after bullfrogs in the lazy creeks, or sprawled on the floor of a kitchen-turned-school-house learning to read while the teacher cradled her nursing infant...
...jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...
...Saturday Evening Post, they began to realize that self-important little Jules Romains was also one of the most curious characters the period between the two world wars produced: that he was Europe's most indefatigable and unsuccessful peace-fixer, whose naivete was only equaled by his Tom Sawyerish delight in conspiracy...