Word: childishly
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...state that the purchasers of the books were, like the late Lord Leverhulme, merely on the lookout for pictures with which to nourish their childish minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
...life of the preparatory school of today. If the college is to maintain its claim to a position superior to the preparatory school, it must intensify its life particularly on the creative side in literature, art, science, politics and religion . . . must become a man and put away childish things...
...like every theorist he likes to it the world to his theory in preference to fitting his theory to the world. His "Childish Americans" in the January Parper's" fits the American public to his particular belief that the national malady is childishness. And it is not conducive to national content to realize how easily he is able to do this...
...masses and men of this continent are to the eyes of a sane and capable doctor of medicine puerile in their thinking, infantile in their action. But surely the great masses of any nation at any time could be considered childish from the angle of an individual maturity. Collections of mature minds often form a social group of puerile function. And there are yet in this country occasional vigorous and mature minds, even if the social group does appear ridiculous...
...many invaluable paragraphs appearing in the LETTERS columns of TIME constitute a fund of interesting and instructive reading. However, the paragraph captioned "Wales Flayed" on p. 2 of the issue of Nov. 16, does not. It is silly, childish, rabid...