Word: womanishness
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This is the nature of a command performance. We wept salty tears in the last issue--any further demonstration of sentiment would be womanish and unsuitable in an officer and a gentleman (over though only by act of Congress!!) Shortly after this goes to press, all sixty-four of us will be on route to our duty stations and looking ahead, rather than backward. Our fellow-graduates across the river will be in similar situations. But the Supply Corps continues, and the Communication School plug on, and the QMC works modestly in mufti, so we'll write a post-valedictory...
...reader who does not realize that No Surrender is a sequel to The Rebel Generation, she has prefaced this book with a revealing but formidable genealogical table. Good and caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...think Germany is to be frightened to weak-kneed terror by some bugaboo of a submarine destroyer? Do we think she will yield to old-womanish fears, and flee in terror from Belgium, when she hears that America is about to set forth to wither her enemies? If words could move Germany, our words would have done so. Words cannot move Germany. She has not a fear of our prowess equal to our confidence...
...hopeless resignation it counsels, or seems to counsel. Harvard, as far as I know is the only institution of the kind, which sets up its back, and despotically proclaims "one day only as a Thanksgiving holiday." It looks to me a mere act of caprice, an old womanish attempt of the college to make itself talked about...