Word: studiousness
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...title four times running (1920-1923). To do so Dorothy Locke will have to ward off the challenge of stubby Muriel Guggolz, another Salle d'Armes Vince student and teammate with Locke and Lloyd on last year's U. S. Olympic team. A studious and prudent, albeit preternaturally sly, lady with a foil, little Miss Guggolz was not fencing for the championship last week; she was unexpectedly eliminated in the trials last fortnight...
House Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
...grey, gaunt man with downcast eyes and stooped shoulders, Cordell Hull has been moving about the Capitol for 24 years in studious preoccupation. Only his Congressional intimates know his unspectacular worth. He has never had any practical experience as a diplomat but he has read every decision handed down by the World Court. He refuses to wear spats and carry a cane, but can recite by heart every trade barrier the world over. Laconic, when asked the time he will silently exhibit his watch instead of reading it himself...
...than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
United Fruit's new President Hart is learned, studious, convivial. After leaving M. I. T. he tried farming in Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books...