Word: teacherish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the right of it when you call our taoiseach [Eamon de Valera] "teacherish" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Tis a true word surely. But where are your wits at all that you have been looking at pictures of him these 20 years and more and never saw that "turkey-necked" would be a truer one? And without codding doesn't the face of him look like a turkey...
...newly adopted Irish Free State Constitution (TIME, July 12 et ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked...
...vote was not nearly so unanimous as tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera had hoped and expected, but at latest reports ratification of the new Constitution seemed certain by 560,000 votes to 436,000. The de Valera party made a weaker showing, with virtually complete returns early this week promising its opponents roughly half of the Dail's 138 seats...
Ebullient Dubliners said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...
...Eugene Hillhouse Pool, teacherish president of the Academy, opened the lecture course, then ducked out on 750 out-of-towners who signed up ($3 each) for the course. Manhattan manners were forgiven, however, when Dr. Pool, long-time professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University, reappeared at San Francisco to be elected 1936 president of the American College of Surgeons...