Word: squarishly
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...walls could talk, Pittsburghers would give much to hear what the richly carved panels of the Duquesne Club had to say. For of all U. S. businessmen's clubs, the Duquesne is among the richest and most discreet. Its big, squarish, brownstone-fronted building in the centre of the Golden Triangle is the citadel of Pittsburgh tycoonery. There Mellons, Scaifes, Weirs, Benedums, McClintics, other Pittsburgh bigwigs eat, drink, relax, play poker, shoot craps, make deals. Some 35 corporations maintain suites for business purposes at the Duquesne...
...Barbary ape looks like a figure in a bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...
...Author. Maxwell Bodenheim, 35, blond, squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class. His poetry is on a par with his prose. Other books: Replenishing Jessica, Ninth Avenue, Georgie...
...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...
William Randolph Hearst has built another house. It is a squarish house, stolid, concrete, spotted with wide windows, utilitarian. It cost $3,000,000. The money was mostly spent for speed...