Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain adorable girl (who I know has read my messages of the past few days) were to say to me: "Jeremy, don't be childish, but if you really would like to take me out to dinner, you may." I should...
...diminutive Irishman occupied himself with a flagellation of one William Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
Since then she has acquired an adult technique which, with her childish body, her attractively homely face, gives her performances a peculiarly effective quality. For Little Friend her clothes were designed by Schiaparelli. She goes to a private school at Wimbledon, speaks French and German, sews frocks, knits scarves, cooks Swiss rolls, owns a black and white cat, an ivory mouse, a goldfish and a coin with the Lord's prayer engraved on it. Ending a month's visit to the U. S. she last week sailed for England where she will make two pictures a year...
...especially disturbed about it, not so much from the ethical point of view, but on the grounds that it shows certain members of the college to be extremely childish in subjecting themselves and others to a really grave danger. It is a very sure thing that if a man were hit on the head by one of the falling goal posts he would be seriously injured, if not killed...