teacherish
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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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Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said: In Melbourne last week the Beach Purity League was excoriated by Police Magistrate Stafford.
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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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The 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.
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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
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