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...Richard Aldrich, New York socialite, was introduced as "a woman of leisure." Said she: "The contention of the wet and noisy minority is only the voicing of self-indulgence. ... Its arguments appear very childish. . . . The statement that Prohibition has worked no changes in railroad discipline is quite childish. . . . The wet minority of leisure, occupied in establishing social bootlegging, is now alarmed lest the lives of its illegal employes be in danger. Hosts and hostesses have only to be less childish and there will be an end to the strange alliance between liquor and ladies...
Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because...
...moves for a similar organization. At first he made butchers driving to the abattoir untie the legs of calves, scolded horse beaters, haled cock fight fanciers into court. In 1866 he obtained a charter for the A. S. P. C. A. Later in life he suffered from dyspepsia, wrote childish plays, attended first nights at the theatre. P. T. Barnum attended his funeral...
...Paul shook his finger in her face. "I consider your attitude childish, Leontine. Every morning I myself shall give you a shooting lesson in the garden...
...indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses is to be treated. Such an attitude of armed neutrality is not conducive to allowing the central idea of the House Plan a fair trial. It is furthermore a more childish attitude than ought to be taken by the Harvard student body. We ought not to have such an exaggerated sense of our own individuality that we resent any contact with other--and especially older--individuals which might in any sense seem to limit this "precious" possession of ours. Such...