Word: studiousness
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...know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts of Dr. Kung's handsome, shy, studious, English-speaking, 23-year-old son David ("Prince David"). The latter was something almost no one knew. He had disappeared...
...such "proof" is only a starter for de Madariaga's deductive pièce de resistance. Now he traces Colon's Jewish origin in his character-in his Messianic bent; in his preoccupation with human "contracts"; in his studious avoidance of editorial judgment on the expulsion of the Jews at a time when such sentiments were as conventional as Heil! in Nazi Germany; in his fascination with gold and jewels (rather more esthetic and symbolic than mercenary...
...Snob. At Eton, Edward Wood made a scholastic record his father was proud of. At Christ Church, Oxford, he was equally studious in modern history. Unlike many a future British statesman, he took no interest in politics at Oxford. But in his schooling he acquired neither the snobbish "Eton manner" nor the equally snobbish Oxonian accent...
...World-Helen C. White - Macmillan ($2.50). The vicissitudes of an idealistic young Catholic priest in the French Revolution. Studious and devout, it will most interest Roman Catholic readers...
Sharpest possible contrast to loud, big boned Mr. Fish is Virginia's quiet, studious Clifton Alexander Woodrum. If a composite of typical U. S. businessmen could be assembled and varnished, he might look like Mr. Woodrum. The gentleman from Roanoke is milk-mild about everything but the public debt; only New Deal extravagance burns...