teacherish

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The tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia.

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Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors.

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He invited them and their president to follow Dubinsky into the fold of A. F. of L. Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman.

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"We would welcome expulsion from the British Commonwealth of Nations," earnestly announced tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State last week.

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Though she wasn’t a welcome sight to me, I admit she cut a teacherish figure.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck