Word: childishly
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...successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement at the heartless stupidity of his elders. Treacherous death was actually release...
They contain, of course, a certain charming naivete and primitive vigor which will appeal to all those who are not annoyed by page after page of choppy declarative sentences and who enjoy a continuous parade of childish conceptions. The reader should further be warned not to let the title deceive him. No lurid tales of feminine wiles are forthcoming...
...since the publication of "Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children" has there been anything so human, so intimate, so revealing of the real Roosevelt. This record of childish pranks, of boyhood camping and hunting trips, of progress in athletics and studies while a student at Harvard, form the self-told story of a great personality, from nursery days to early manhood...
...Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been criticized as an influence against childish patriotism was Gordy's History of the United States; from this was deleted a picture called "The Resplendent Red Coats"; to it was added a portrait of George Washington. New history books, not "pro-British" ones, were named and the loud Mayor's most noteworthy service to Chicago...
...train stopped, and the Boy Scouts rushed forward to greet the man who stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...