Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America-foreign securities on the implied understanding that these securities have been passed on or approved by the State Department."- 9) "High public officials in the next administration will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the prices of stocks or bonds." While Republicans cried "Demagog!" and "childish" after the Columbus speech, many a Democrat, encouraged by the nominee's flash and fire, began to feel that here was, after all, another Roosevelt for national leader...
...kept as clean as it should be." It was at her irrational house with the Spink boys and girls that the best fun was to be found. Making the cistern water overflow from the attic and tobogganing with it down the stairs was a panacea for all childish ills...
Spring apart, we do not approve of riots. Mob psychology and all, we can find no justification for rocking private automobiles, and derailing street cars, burning theatre gates and showering with eggs the exponents of the law. It looks childish to us, to say the least, and although the sentiments of the old lady appalled at the nature of American youth when "of such are Chicago gangsters"--is perhaps far fetched in the light of a very sudden spring day, still American youth must be in dire need of action or excitement or occupation or something if it can rouse...
...adventures in childish asceticism, giving away all his toys, pricking his cheeks with oleander leaves, ended when his father made him give some strips of his skin to graft on a peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets...
...first important part when Howard Hughes, remaking Hell's Angels as a talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender; her face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum blonde." It also caused...