Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard for one not a dyed-in-the-wool pacifist to follow the rather childish reasoning in your editorial, "The Ugly Duckling" of today's issue...
...Mahatma Eilshemius is by no means a charlatan. He has been called the American Rousseau. His childish, sentimental painting has been described as "the type of thing . . . which would result were the rank and file of Americans capable of expressing themselves on canvas." He has been praised by Henri Matisse and dozens of others. His most important pictures have been bought by the three most astute collections of modern U. S. paintings: Whitney Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington), Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale...
...became unwillingly involved in the disturbance. The situation has now reached a point where the college office must act, not only to protect the University, but also the interests of the public. The University authorities, the Faculty, and the great majority of the student body, who look upon these childish disturbances as a nuisance to the public and to the Boston Elevated, will stand behind the College Office in any action they may take against men involved in such incidents in the future. That this action must be drastic is quite evident...
...with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green, and all the rest. It seems so childish, and so utterly unnecessary; a small, sour-souled thing...
...same distance north of the Southern Ry. tracks. Santa Claus consists of one rough street, a few frame houses and a general store in the back room of which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards and merchandise with the request that he remail them under the Santa Claus postmark. All this is a lot of bother and expense to the deficit-developing Post Office Department in Washington...