Word: scoutish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when one player has snaffled all the chips. Often the big winner, though honest, gets hurt, or his good friend does. To suggest that the big winner redistribute some of the chips among the losers so that the game can go on and no one get hurt, sounds boy-scoutish. Yet if the game must go on, what suggestion could be more practical...
...this boy-scoutish fashion college students are politely rapped on the knuckles and told that if they would have planned their work from the beginning of the quarter they would not have had to cram...
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