Word: childishly
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...longer a matter for speculation that Roosevelt's childish trust of the Bolsheviks is the basic cause of Germany's current problems." No one speculated. "We are agreed that if the Americans had accepted Doenitz's brilliant offer to join them in May '45 and drive the Bolsheviks back to the Volga. . . ." A few gulps of wine obscured Glaubich's last few words but, plainly, nobody disagreed...
...Eddie Constantine's latest record is L'Homme et I'Enfant, in which he sings sentimental answers to a little girl's childish questions-the little girl being his eleven-year-old daughter Tania. Translation...
...broad, but his character sense is broad-bottomed; somehow, though M. Jourdain's head swims with wild delusions, his clumsy feet stay on the ground. And the Comédie Franchise's Louis Seigner keeps him that way, makes him seem human while remaining idiotic, and so childish as to be likable. Actor Seigner's would-be gentleman becomes a solid center round which revolve a succession of sideshows...
...Russia's Empress Elizabeth summoned 14-year-old Sophia to Moscow to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Tsar Peter III), Elizabeth's nephew and heir. Peter, a German-born second cousin of his bride-to-be, at 16 was a pockmarked, childish lad who prattled only of soldiers and toys, and in the next 18 years expanded his interests to include mistresses, hounds and drinking. Catherine, as Sophia was rechristened when she entered the Russian Orthodox Church, soon sized him up: "I believe that the Crown of Russia attracted me more than his person...
...blooded MRAer could read your story about the eleven released American airmen and then go onstage and mouth the nauseating - and badly written at that - lyrics of The Vanishing Island is beyond my understanding. They belong in Alice in Wonderland, not paddling around in a duckpond of childish politics with a world in crisis...