Word: caddishness
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...Dumb-Animal's English edition Author Sitwell has appended pages of English press comment on his previous work, some flattering, some not. Unflattering examples: ". . . merely caddish," ". . . snobbish...
...itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian who mastered life, and then frittered it away, by emulating a character in Balzac-a rebuffed suitor who paused on the threshold, returned...
...advised as to report some piracies-of his. He went to their hotel, shot them. He was oppressed at his trial, which lasted over a month, as one forced to endure a protracted breach of good taste. When the sentence was read, he commiserated the jury for the caddish behavior which, he felt, had been forced upon them. "You couldn't help it," said he. "You had to do your duty." Nevertheless, a precedent has fallen. There is law west of the Pecos...