teacherish

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Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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