Word: babyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have just finished reading a handbill containing the Republican Club's jejeune objections to the proposed Harvard Student Association. I am frankly appalled that that less than august body has adopted such a babyish posture regarding such a positive step towards the creation of a viable fabric of undergraduate community...
...egos of writers, Cerf discovered, were as big as his own. George Bernard Shaw refused to let him put St. Joan into an anthology until he was promised a fee twice as large as O'Neill's-whatever that was. "Isn't that pretty babyish?" Cerf shot back. "All right, it's babyish," Shaw agreed, not at all put out by his effrontery. "Do you want it or don't you? Twice as much." Cerf paid...
...really doubtful, though, that the Dartmouth fans, obnoxious at best and cry-babyish the rest of the time, have any equals. Anywhere. They simply fail to realize that while triumphs over the Crimson might cause hysteria in Hanover, losses to the Big Green hardly cause a ripple around Tommy's Lunch...