Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small boy carefully studied the figure of Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Basis Lecturer on the History of Italian, Civilization, as the boarded scholar walked to lunch at the Faculty Club absorbed in academic contemplation...
...same subject, Miss Bunny Enright of the Veteran's Book Office expressed her liking for the "gentleman-scholar type," defining him as one who wears grey flannels and shirts with button-down collars...
...Toynbee allied himself with another British scholarly dynasty by marrying the daughter of Professor Gilbert Murray, famous classical scholar and the Swinburnian translator of Euripides and other Greek dramatists. They had three sons, of whom the best known is Philip Toynbee, novelist (School in Private, The Barricades) and reviewer for British magazines like Horizon, Contact and others. Shortly after World War II, Toynbee and Rosalind Murray were divorced. Toynbee then married Veronica Boulter, for many years his secretary and researcher...
Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
...beat his way up to Nanking from Shanghai in a howling gale of antipathy and criticism. Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien. Chubby, nearsighted, greying Fu, respected scholar and independent liberal, had expanded his polemics against T.V. into three newspaper articles...