Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freedom of Moscow's homeless children, thousands of them, parentless, homeless. . . . highwaymen, murderers and dope fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...
...OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every three Follies girls must be a preacher's daughter. Mary Lewis was adopted when she was eight years old by Rev. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark. He was moved to take this step after hearing her sing, in a childish treble, "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam." Mrs. Fitch, a shrill-voiced and bony-handed woman, taught her the words of hymns, while the dominie, who had been a drummer in the Civil War, instructed her in music. Both, with passionate fervor, spanked...
...SHEEP RUN?Thames Wil- liamson?Small, Maynard ($2.50). "Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last...
...Bonito controls his excitable peninsula; and its failure to obtain its objectives may be accounted for by the inability of Americans to do things as dramatically as Italians. The ground was prepared well. Many Americans are convinced that our national institutions are gravely threatened, and many more feel the childish thrill of joining with an organization dealing in large popular movements. The American public is as susceptible as any other to political charlatanism. The Klan uniform is much more sanitary and fully as picturesque as a black shirt Yet--all of the invisible Empire's stage effects have fallen through...
...authorities would let it stand. After saying that he had two brothers who are U. S. "subjects," and that he will be paying them his first visit in 15 years, he added: "I don't for a moment expect the United States Government will be so childish as to interfere...