Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...second fingers were missing. Over his four bare fingers he pulled two pairs of little red pants, apologizing for "dressing in public." Thus costumed, M. Martin's agile fingers looked like bare legs, his hands became an incredibly realistic team of tiny dancers. The audience, fascinated by the childish spectacle, began to gurgle in appreciation...
...harmless a bit of Gilbertian whimsy as was ever conceived by Princeton minds, the movement has suddenly turned serious, to the surprise of every one including its founders. With the promise of Representative Maverick to introduce their bill into Congress and the humorless protest of the Gold Star Mothers, childish things have been put aside, and the Veterans of Future Wars become full-fledged lobbyists in their own right...
Andrew Ross tells the story of his life to an old author who believes he is the young man best fitted to meet life and wants to write a book around him. Andy begins with his first childish recollections, which are handled intelligently by the author. Dr. Ross is a country doctor and an extraordinarily understanding father, while his wife is devoted to them both but has all the maternal worries that tradition ascribes to mothers...
...that a childish interrogation? Instead of working out psychological puzzles, would not you be wiser to use the celebrated French logic and think it out? Isn't it obviously wiser for our two countries to get along together? Wouldn't it be ruinous for both to crash against each other on new battlefields? Isn't it logical that I would wish what is most advantageous for my country? And that which is most advantageous, isn't it obviously peace...