Word: callowness
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...British journalist would have dared to say last week, on the 33rd birthday of Edward of Wales that he still looks like a callow Eton schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...fairness to publish it, will do anything except enrage the presumptuous medical gentleman who rather optimistically hopes that all other colleges are soon similarly to be devoted to the cause of vaccination. I should like to suggest to the editors, however, that when they are tired of publishing the callow judgments of undergraduates about courses given by instructors against whom they have a grudge--a practice which. I note, has already hardened into a "tradition"--they should give some space to really worth while causes. If one omits from one's consideration the Boston bean, a disgrace to civilized cookery...
...Agassiz theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, "Matches", "An Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father and sons being so easily enhanced by differences of education...
...came to Manhattan last week in the imperial suite of the Berengaria, proceeding thence to the Ritz. Dazzled, newsgatherers hailed Mrs. Rosa Lewis as the most exalted onetime scullion who ever lived, remembering that she and the late Edward VII were once close as two quails on a spit. Callow, the newsgatherers betrayed an ignorance of great scullions, cooks, laundresses...
...more or less, forever. Tradition is strongly upon them but with annually changing boards of editors their excellences and taste fluctuate. The spectacle of an institution as old and honored as the Harvard Lampoon (monthly funnypaper) falling (as it did the past autumn) into the hands of editors callow and ribald, is neither unusual nor significant. The Lampoon's coarse insults to Princeton, subsequent inept apologies and yet more recent displays of awkwardness in prose, verse and cartoon, were simply the sort of thing that can happen in undergraduate journalism-a parallel to the miserable football team that often...