Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insignificant, puerile attempts of the law makers results as it must, the derision and disregard of really rational laws is not far off. Obedience to law is a habit and so is disobedience. If the energy of law-making and of law enforcement is to be spent on childish, insincere and unnecessary regulations, the main body of necessary law can not be expected to hold a revered or admired place in American minds...
...seen golf in its true light, and recognized its importance in retarding the affairs of the world. Mr. George Bernard Shaw recognized in the golfing propensities of statesmen an unmistakable sign of the immaturity of mankind. Seventy years, he says, are barely long enough to outgrow the childish pastimes of games and frivolities. In order for man to become sufficiently mature to solve intelligently the problems of civilization he must increase his span of life; he must finally outgrow golf and all of the meaningless trifling that it represents...
...Trailing clouds of glory do we come" from school which was our home, and so, figuratively speaking, most freshmen come with the bloom hardly rubbed off their cheeks. But after a year together they are supposed to have outgrown childish things, and to act, if not as men, at least as "college men." By senior year, the average undergraduate has supposedly earned the title of "dignified." But of late a custom has developed among seniors which leads to the supposition that some have reached a second childhood; for the noisy "Reinhardt Night" seems to be extending itself to include every...
This mortal deadlock continued when the Senate adjourned for the holidays- three weeks in session and almost nothing done. The Democrats took opportunity to play the Republicans for inaction. Senator Reed of Missouri (Democrat) called the deadlock "perfectly childish" because the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee was "inconsequential." Senator Wheeler of Montana, a Democrat, but heartily in accord with the Republican insurgents, took issue with the Senator from Missouri, declaring that the Chairmanship was vitally important...
...children of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, in an Italian landscape, the little girl costumed as a gypsy and reading the palm of the little boy, five years old, dressed in a red satin Van Dyck suit. The picture is full of childish grace and animation...