10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STARCHILY»
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starchily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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... from Haines's first facility in California. Haines, a swimmer of some Olympic
promise, was a member of several championship YMCA teams in Huntington, Ind
. just before World War II. "In my day," he says starchily, "men swimmers were
tops." ...
2
Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate
The immigration boys were starchily well mannered and, since our working
papers were in fine British order, passed us through without so much as a raised
eyebrow. Pat, our stage manager, was at the gate to meet, drive, and shepherd
us to ...
3
Left Right Left: Political Essays, 1977-2005
In 1994 Windschuttle achieved some success with a polemic attacking
deconstructionist and postmodernist trends called The Killing of History,which
was championed by the group associated with the starchily conservative
American cultural ...
4
Seabury Place: A Bronx Memoir
... Mr. and Mrs. Bord, bookies and numbers runners; Miss Winter, who gave us a
nickel tip for calling her to the candy store telephone; and Rosalyn Fuchs, who
was always starchily dressed when she came to school or stepped into the street.
They were tight on him now, starchily pressed, fatly creased, the lining mildewed.
The outfit still served its purpose, however, which was to show off his sunburn,
the one he had said he hadn't gotten this time. His hair was longer than usual
and ...
6
Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility
But I am not now concerned with Marianne, but with Elinor: it is she, not Marianne
, whom some readers — to mention only extremes — experience as either
anxiously or starchily conforming, while others find her to be nearly a saint. For
some ...
... starchily clad in the most beautifully tailored white linen, and they all went mad
about her. The Pup and the Kit clutched at her skirts until anybody else would
have been a mass of wrinkles, and the left breast of her linen blouse did always ...
Maria Thompson Daviess, 1stworld Library, 2006
8
A Remarkable Case of Burglary
So just before ten o'clock on the morning of Friday, May the thirty-first, to be
trailing up the back stairs in the wake of the stiffly marching, starchily aproned
figure of Mrs. Vickers on her way to see that goddess was an ordeal that seemed
to ...
9
Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805
He asked Morris, whose authority exceeded his when it came to the blockade, to
permit him to issue them, in hopes of averting the unending trouble that would
result from captured ships and prisoners, but Morris refused starchily. To no ones
...
10
Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story
From such starchily conventional pieties there is little we can infer about the inner
realities of what must surely have been an often strained and difficult marriage.
Who knows how much of a revelation the news of Atherton's infidelities and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STARCHILY»
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starchily is used in the context of the following news items.
The critical moment: James Wood's brief but illuminating memoir of …
Wood begins with an account of attending a funeral and then takes us even further back to his upbringing in a starchily intellectual and religious household in ... «The National, Apr 15»
A History of Rich TV Characters
Many of the men wore ascots, and the wives starchily comported themselves as if a ripple of pleasure would be a frightful bother. These privileged characters ... «Vanity Fair, Mar 15»
Theatre Review: 'Silent Sky' at Theatrical Outfit
But please do not think that “Silent Sky” is all starchily scientific; quite the reverse. Its characters are intensely human and likable. Ms. Wells' performance as ... «Atlanta Intown, Feb 15»
Denis Cote's Spare and Elegant Joy of Man's Desiring Is an …
... are porous enough to permit staged soliloquies, fable-spinning, and a violin performance by a starchily attired tyke before a handful of coverall-clad workers. «Village Voice, Jan 15»
'Beyond the Lights' movie review: A star turn for Gugu Mbatha-Raw
... admittedly suffers from inertness during its most starchily emotionalistic passages. But it also fully owns its wish-fulfillment fantasies of love, fame and ambition, ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
So is there ACTUALLY a tape of Kim Kardashian doing a sex to and …
"Kim," she's hissing down the line, her ever-present jacket perched starchily on her clotheshanger shoulders. "Kim. If you don't do this I'm making Kourtney my ... «heatworld, Sep 14»
'Ping Pong Summer' movie review
But its relatively uninvolving story, starchily directed by Tully and given little zing by an uneven cast, makes “Ping Pong Summer” an okay-not-great addition to a ... «Washington Post, Jun 14»
All My Sons, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London
This production starts rather starchily and takes time to assert a grip, but as the play twists to its conclusion it becomes, as it should be, shattering. Like Ibsen ... «Financial Times, May 14»
Northants edge ahead of Lancashire despite Jimmy Anderson's five …
The sky was leaden (sufficient to take the players from the field for a while early on) and a stiffish breeze billowed the flags starchily. Under foot, there were dark ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
The Best Celebrity Easter Plans: Dog Costumes, Twitter Jokes …
Not only did Geroge apparently get to skip church, making him the envy of squirmy, starchily-dressed toddlers the land over, but he also got to visit a real live ... «Bustle, Apr 14»
