Word: childishly
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...Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes, and free but educated preferences-a genuine culture, in short. The Denver City Club was quick to offer Judge Lindsey...
...More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment of a Single Command...
...Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across a stationary stage. Later on, the villain commits suicide, and whatever of the audience remains is given explicit...
...There should be a greater exchange of news between the CRIMSON and the Princeton. Ignorance of each other's educational policies and standards is due to lack of information. The college papers can do much to further appreciation and understanding by ceasing their childish rivalries and seeking to interpret the aims of the other college...
...apartment and settled themselves to drink a bottle of grain alcohol. They mixed the fiery fluid with water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed the other and not even a shoe, which Mr. Carson picked...