Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he buys the low-hum, nickel-plated car which carried sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge's leg; the smoky lady in stepins whom none but Topper can understand; Topper sitting platonically in an ectoplasmic...
...soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen into the hands of a successful artist and a genuine British dowager. You know what end awaited Mrs. Katherine Mandeville Richardson, the U. S. diplomat's relict, if she had not had the fabulous good fortune to hook the childish millionaire, Samuel Gummidge Bunker, after trickery at roulette had failed her. You even know that not all artists are so comparatively happy, chivalrous and well-heeled as Leslie Waldron, not all dowagers so sensible and friendly as Lady Agnes Drayton. The chances are that Author Whitlock knows too, after eight...
...have a time ahead of them when, weary or not, they must learn in bulk instead of bits. Time was when spring vacation meant that they too could make holiday after the taste and fancy of their natures; but, saving become not men but seniors, they have put away childish things. If it only made them feel better, there would be something to it; yet they have nothing to comfort them but boredom and an increasing suspicion that the laws of supply and demand apply neither to games nor to candles...
...frankly, is ridiculous; his aims, and his means of achieving those aims, to a student with even a superficial knowledge and observation of social evils, seem incredibly childish...
...becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau is a head whose clarity has not been greatly affected by occasional, more or less comprehensible, enlargements...