Word: studiousness
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...Good Marriage. Shivers (rhymes with rivers) was born Oct. 5, 1907 at Lufkin, where his father, Robert A. Shivers, was clerking in a store. Later, the elder Shivers practiced law at Woodville, then became a district judge at Port Arthur. Young Allan, a studious boy, hung around the courthouse so much that he acquired a nickname: "Judge...
...youngest (26) man elected to the Texas senate up to that time. He soon won recognition as a studious, hardworking legislator. In the 1936 special session, he helped draft old-age-assistance legislation and was considered "almost a New Dealer...
Since then, the Yard has often been a bedlam. Studious John Rinehart himself graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1903, went into practice in Manhattan, finally retired to his home in Waynesburg, Pa. There he lived a life of quiet respectability, buying and selling farmlands, and there last week, at 77, he died. To the end, old John Rinehart, whose name started so many riots in Harvard Yard, never touched a drop...
...letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor of his studious...
...beginnings. His parents grew up in that highly literate wave of immigration that a century ago brought to America the civilization of the Rhineland, Beethoven and Brahms, a respect for learning and a tenderness towards the unfortunate. The Lippmanns were comfortably off. Walter was an only child. A studious, argumentative, handsome boy of 17, he took up his abode at Weld Hall in the Harvard Yard and proceeded to make a name for himself. It was Harvard College's most vivid moment. Eliot was president. William James of still teaching. Fellow students of the famous class of 1910 were...