Word: schoolboyish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some campuses-notably at Indiana University, after nine Theta Chis were jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
...Upper Park Avenue, a bright-colored, schoolboyish splash by New York's Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin. Said Socialite Joe Baldwin: "[Painting] takes a very short time actually...
...hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line for its surprising epilogue. France fallen, and Sir Joseph Mainwaring blathering along about the war's having entered "a new and more glorious phase," Waugh girds up his ghosts in their brave, schoolboyish excitement over the newborn Commandos (he belongs him-self...