Word: callowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start rowing this year in good season. Washington, which had beaten Wisconsin, seemed a powerful heavy crew but Washington had been defeated on the Pacific coast by California. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which entered the regatta for the first time this year, Pennsylvania, coached by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, onetime (1923-27) coach of Washington, and Syracuse, which has not won a Poughkeepsie race since 1916, seemed sure to be the trailers...
...playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard...
...DeWitt Mitchell, as a Minnesota boy, yearned to be an electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
...Columbia University; in Manhattan last week. Dr. Kemp was a native of Janesville, Wis. When he was a lazy Columbia freshman, relatives promised him $2,500 for each year he remained at the University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree of D. P. M.-Doctor of Perpetual Motion. His university career paralleled the expansion of education. New courses and degrees were continually being offered in time to prevent him from exhausting the Columbia curriculum and so losing his annuity...
Beyond that, he distinguished himself at West Point by slovenliness of person, mediocrity of scholarship, hatred of firearms, and a certain girlish squeamishness of profanity and rough jokes. His femininity was emphasized by a callow appearance-indeed, during leisure hours of the Mexican War, Grant took the part, in amateur theatricals, of Desdemona, no less...