Word: schoolmarmishly
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...Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with an aspiring young writer called Phoebe Craddock. Schoolmarmish, sweet, and socially inept, she has no trouble capturing the hearts of Jason, Mrs. Carmichael, their two children and a journalistic superstar called Leo (played with apparent reluctance by Ron Leibman...
...letter is very much in keeping with Kirkpatrick's style at the U.N. Although friends say she is shy and a bit uncomfortable with the social aspects of her job, many of her colleagues consider her "schoolmarmish" and "uppity...
...first Secretary of Education, President Carter said he wanted a ''strong, creative thinker." He also wanted someone independent of the ubiquitous education lobbyists in Washington. Last week he announced his surprising choice: schoolmarmish Shirley Mount Hufstedler, 54, a federal appeals court judge in California...
Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
Neither Nymph nor Virgin. Soft-voiced, schoolmarmish Margaret Knight, who has no children of her own, undertook to advise "humanist parents" what to tell their offspring about God. "We can tell them," she said, "that everyone believed at one time, and some people believe now, that there are two great powers in the world: a good power called God, who made the world and who loves human beings . . . and a bad power called the Devil, who is opposed to God and who wants people to be unhappy and bad. We can tell them that some people still believe this...