Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of 1939 a young man with a moonish, almost childish face flew his single-engined Beechcraft airplane from New York to Boston, where he huddled with savants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His incisive understanding of their experiments with a new radio tube left them speechless, unable to believe that he had quit school when he was 13. That night he flew back to New York, repaired immediately to the Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word...
...England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart and has a will of iron. She has always worked hard, spends...
Other complaints: older classmates in high school and college derided their short pants and childish treble voices; employers failed to recognize them as geniuses, turned them down as too young. The group divided 50-50 on whether segregation in special classes had made them intellectual snobs, agreed that skipping grades had left them with poor study habits...
When Charles Einfeld, Harry Brand and Russell Birdwell uttered their first infant cries, little did their mothers realize the distance those childish voices would one day reach. For Charlie, Harry and Russell have since grown into the foremost trumpeters of Hollywood's bizarre and boisterous activities. They are publicity men. It is their job to keep the world aware of movies, beglamored about movie stars, and thus herd in admissions to the box office...
Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...