Word: kiddish
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...Less kiddish Jackie Coogan, 27, was graduated as a glider pilot, made a staff sergeant, at the Army Air Forces training field at 29 Palms, Calif...
...what has become of the football rallies? I actually discovered a Senior the other way who didn't know what the term signified! No doubt the rallies have been put aside as expressions of kiddish emotionalism unworthy of college men. But without some kind of real, honest-to-God enthusiasm directly instilled into the men on the team, we have no right to expect them to defeat teams whose members feel solid support behind them...
...years," said Mr. Stonaker, "since I've been on the Princeton to Princeton Junction branch, and college boys have changed a lot since I started. They ain't so kiddish as they used to be now they're grown up like and act like...
...gross injustice has been done me. I have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
...Harvard students from their fellows in other colleges, it has been their prevailing regard for gentlemanly conduct,- their almost universal courtesy. We have been charged with snobbishness and indifference, but even our enemies have conceded to us a general respect for outward decorum, and abhorrence of boyish and "Kiddish" conduct. During the present year many things have happened which seem to show that we are in danger of losing our former high reputation. Such acts as the painting of the Fogg Museum, and the explosions at the lecture last Wednesday evening, would have seemed incredible at Harvard two or three...
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