Sentence:  Slowly his huge and inarticulate fist traveled to his eye, and stayed there <WSD>baby-wise</WSD>. / The young men of today do not cry. They turn Syndicalist instead; dimly conscious in the darkness of the wall that stands between them and the largesse of life that they feel to be their right, and flinging against that wall in an impotent fury of words and blows. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In the manner of a baby.