Word: pedantic
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...Juvenile Pedant...
...reviewing Peck's Bad Boy, current cinema, TIME correctly describes Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) as "a juvenile sneak & pedant" (TIME, Oct. 15). Cousin Horace, arriving at the Peck household, is carrying a magazine. At several moments a familiar cover is plainly visible. TIME! A symbol of pedantry, no doubt...
...writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang refuses to accept him. Aunt Lily blames Bill for their antipathy. Manfully, Bill decides to run away from home, but when he does so his eccentric old friend Duffy (O. P. Heggie) brings him back...
...fiddle and a camera on an audacious tramp through the rougher regions of the Balkan countries. From its beginning this fascinating tale is one continuous entertainment, expounding adventure after adventure among the dark-skinned, musical vagabonds of Europe's gypsy clans. It is most amusing to see our pedant brushing elbows with the more truculent half of life, as well as with the dusky female species whose advances he passes off with tactful gentleness, always taking his romance with a grain of salt and never once forgetting his station in life. We follow this troubadour and his disguise, waiting...
...industrial captains. Professor Taussig, director of the research and author with Mr. Joslyn, arrives at his conclusion after a masterful and scholarly analysis of his statistics. While eminently understandable by the layman, the book is at the same time exhaustively precise with interesting appendices, sufficient for the most particularizing pedant...