Word: childishly
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...strolling through the annual outdoor exhibition of artists on Washington Square. Primitive most of the pictures were, but truly Primitive were those of an unknown named William Doriani. Last week, amid sophisticated hosannas on 57th Street, the works of Tenor Doriani painted in fresh color patterns with flattened childish figures, were exhibited at the Marie Harriman Gallery as pure naïve paintings in a class with those of the late Pittsburgh House Painter John Kane...
When a lawyer named Carlton Cole Magee bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering...
...Pailthorpe-Mednikoff canvases were filled with these symbols. Some of them, such as safety pins, wheels and houses, were easily recognizable as childish carryovers. Others were less simple. Dr. Pailthorpe and Mr. Mednikoff were anxious to explain that this cockscomb meant that the little boy had killed his mother, and that that tree represented father chasing him around behind the house. Some of the symbols were obviously adult, obviously sexual...
Probably Professor Einstein could explain it all, but I don't see how you can print the news before it happens, and your explanation is childish...
...Freshmen acted immaturely, but infinitely more childish was the performance of these grown men, for whom the combination of a war uniforn and an officer's badge proved so intoxicating. Now that the annual game of Cops and Robbers is over and the cops have won, the undergraduate body would like a bit of peace and quiet...