Word: hokinsonian
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...exercising her chin." Then she turned to the problem presented by a houseful of reporters, most of them thirsting to embroil her in argument about local politics. She solved it by discussing the United Nations-so firmly, so energetically and with so much of the air of a Hokinsonian clubwoman doing flower arrangements that the press fidgeted, breathed heavily and resigned itself to an austerity diet of Larger Issues...
Petite, retiring Helen Hokinson wore her greying hair in bangs, had a conservative, un-Hokinsonian taste in hats and clothes. But she disowned the title of satirist. Insisted Miss Hokinson: "I see no reason for people to regard my ladies superciliously ... I [have always] considered them bright, sensible people and agreed with almost everything they said." Her fans had not seen the last of the Hokinson girls; The New Yorker still had ten unpublished cartoons...
There is a certain quixotic charm about that mystery of the misplaced votes at Radcliffe. What happened on the female side of the Square last week bodes well for the supply of Hokinsonian matrons in the suburbia of the future, but the people actually involved in the incident might feel that they have a right to expect more responsible behavior from a duly constituted Student Government...
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