Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cherished a secret pride in his ability to handle the Führer. On his visits, he carried along maps and architectural plans in which Hitler found a childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced a letter he had written in 1941 to Germany's Minister of Justice: "The enclosed newspaper clipping about the conviction of the Jew Marcus Luftgas to a prison sentence of two and one-half years [for the hoarding of eggs] has been submitted to the Führer...
...Italian movie on a somewhat similar subject, Shoeshine (TIME, Sept. 8), if Author Sze had been content to present the stark facts of her matter. As it is, she pads out her story by bringing refugee adults into the camp-boring adults who try to explain, in the hackneyed, childish language of pseudo-philosophy, the desperate situation which the children have already expressed with such matureness...
...represent veterans as a whole get together, make a few asinine remarks, and fool that they have enlightened the rest of the public. With hour exams at hand I feel certain that Mr. Kornfeld and crowd can find more constructive things to do than organizing groups devoted to such childish chatter...
...steel, because exports to all other countries are strictly controlled while the Dominion enjoys its preferential position within the U.S. economic union. Some Senators suspected that Canada fabricated its import of steel into consumption goods for un controlled export. Replied a high Canadian official: "It's just childish to talk about lack of controls." Canada has its own, just as tough as the U.S. brand. Of the Dominion's steel exports last year, he said, 86% was in ships and machinery needed to rebuild Europe-which is just what the U.S. is exporting steel...
...tuxedoed old judge bent down to peer at the odd little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...