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bookman
noun
One who held bookland.
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"The old bookman [Donald Brace] said he couldn't overrule his trusted hire".
Speaking to a "Times" bookman not long ago, he said, "Football has certainly developed.
WARREN--William B. The trustees and staff of The Library of America are saddened by the death of William B. Warren, a true bookman and friend of literature.
A native of Rumania, he was a discerning bookman, a gifted linguist, a cosmopolitan traveller and a dedicated member of the Grolier Club and the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie.
Next, they steal a car, cursorily savage a courting couple, break into a cottage owned by "another intelligent type bookman type like that we'd fillied with some hours back," destroy the typescript of his work in progress and gang rape his wife.
Jim was a collector of antiquarian natural history books, a longtime member of The Grolier Club and the consummate bookman.
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BOOKMAN--John Jacob, MD You'd have been 100 today!!!
Robert Bookman of the Creative Artists Agency, after seeing the film, wanted Stabile as a client.
Robert S. Bookman, a lawyer for the N.Y.C. Newsstand Operators Association, a 25-year-old trade group, said that hiding cigarettes behind a curtain or a wall in stores would just backfire, because retailers would plaster the walls with advertising.
The number has fallen to 300, driven by the decline of the newsstand's original stock in trade — newspapers and magazines — and affected by a period of severe regulation, Mr. Bookman said, but it has increased slightly in recent years.
After the vote, Robert Bookman, legislative counsel for the New York City chapters of the New York State Restaurant Association — the operators' trade group — charged that "letter grading will be more misleading than helpful," adding that "it will be unfair and a black eye to this industry in the restaurant capital of the word".
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