Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movable props, all of them hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...
...Gossard soon ran into one ideal figure that he hadn't bargained for: the boyish form of the '20s, when many a flapper discarded her corsets entirely, and some even wore tight bindings to flatten out their bosoms. Some corsetiers folded under this frontal assault. Not only did the Gossard company survive (Founder Henry retired in 1923) by turning out the flimsiest excuses for girdles, but it even bought out six competitors to form Associated Apparel Industries, Inc., then the biggest outfit in the business...
General Manager Carroll Wilson, a boyish-looking, scholarly protégé of Vannevar Bush and David Lilienthal, marched into the President's office and quit. He had no confidence, he said, in Gordon Dean, the man Truman had just appointed AEC chairman. Wilson said that the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy under Connecticut's Senator Brien Mc-Mahon was trying to become "a super board of directors," and argued that Dean, who was formerly a law partner of McMahon's, had neither the ability nor the inclination to resist political interference...
...three cities, did not get an A was municipal government. In 1923 Wu moved on to Princeton to take his doctorate in political science. He faced the formidable Dean Andrew Fleming West who personally interviewed all graduate students seeking admission. "Young man," said West after contemplating the round, boyish face of the applicant, "you are immature." "Sir," replied Wu, "to judge maturity by the criterion of age is an immature thought in itself." Dean West promptly admitted him to Princeton...
...such one-man crusades, and a passion for digging out facts, boyish-lookinp-32-year-old Earl Selby has made his column ("In Our Town") one of the most widely read in Philadelphia...