Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
...into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction of claiming a martyr to the cause. And finally, the unprecedented appearance of a sizeable body of Harvard men who came on the scene with the avowed...
...Average college student, there is something strangely childish about the War-debt controversies. The stupidity of the Johnson Bill, forbidding Americans to lend money to nations that have defaulted on their obligations tote United State, is at once apparent to the disinterested observer. The recent decision of the State Department that if England continues to make only taken payments, who must be included among the defaulters, means precisely that all loans to Great Britain whether national or private are a crime against the Federal Government...
...realizes he has always loved her. Because he is married they decide on renunciation. When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack. "She said I was your fancy lady," boasts Tessa with childish innocence as Dodd carries her off happily to a little furnished room in Brussels, where she promptly and pathetically expires in his arms...
...study of Bonfils, for which I consider the book most remarkable, is by no means the greatest part of it. The large, childish Tammon is given as much space, and every line about him is worth reading. There is no more amusing tale than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share...