Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George is a very sincere guy and has done an awful lot--more than most of us realize--to promote interest in good jazz music, particularly around these parts. But every so often he puts himself out on a limb with some childish statement like the above: and an apology generally results a few months later. For instance, a while back George had some rather disparaging remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems...
...named Paul Klee threw over all the drawing lessons he had learned at Munich's famed Akademie and took to making little childlike scrawls. Artist Klee was trying to capture on canvas the fleeting impressions of his own subconscious mind. To him and a few devoted admirers the childish, loony world of the subconscious was more interesting than the harsh, war-bound world outside...
...Henry Ashurst wrote in his speller, in a childish but firm hand: Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona. Thus he announced the great ambition of his life...
Stern is the surveillance of her tender audience, which permits her to take no liberties with favorite stories. Only human, it likes plenty of gore along with its fantasy. Miss Mack keeps in constant touch with her fans, being a specialist at deciphering childish handwriting. Best letter she's received to date: "Will you please send me a free fairy...
...after day the planes came. Politely a Japanese naval spokesman in Hankow said that raids would continue daily until Chungking's "spirit of resistance is broken." Each day the foolish, childish Chinese looked into the sky and wondered whether the planes would come. When they did, the stolid, fascinated faces of those about to die watched them, with a hate which would not be broken even if the Japanese bombed until the whole 750-foot rock of Chungking was blasted to sea level...