Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Less childish and more courteous would have been renaming the dam by the more accurate though less euphonious title of "Black Canyon Dam," as this would have implied some other reason besides politics for the change...
...test case Editor Willard E. Hawkins had his 19-year-old daughter, Stephana, concoct "the most impossible, inane and childish semblance of a story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack...
...maelstrom of laughter after completing a letter by someone who was insulted because a freshman at Yale said that his college has produced few great men in this century. This someone has written a biting invective on the lack of merits of Harvard graduates. Although it is slightly childish, is much more interesting than the inane short stories which continue to clutter the pages of this magazine...
...Government's contention that a puzzle of over 50 pieces is no child's game, should pay the 10% wholesale tax on adult amusements. Most puzzles are 150-500 pieces. Her argument: no matter who plays with them, or how many pieces they contain, jigsaw puzzles are childish, picayune, taxfree...
...Note--After a through investigation of the whole case and after numerous stimulating dives into communications similar to that reprinted above, the CRIMSON finds no reason to retract any statement in its editorial "On the Tribune" which appeared on February 6. Characteristic of the complaints has been the childish tendency to segregate trenchant words and phrases from their context, to ignore all qualifications whatsoever. A careful reconsideration of the editorial should serve as a calming influence. As a denouncement let it be known that the writer of the editorial is a midwesterner...