Word: piquantes
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...HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY- Ethel Davis Seal-Century ($3). Let the reader ignore just what he might expect to find in such a book, namely a gushing stream of female adjectives like "quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly...
...downtown burlesque show. She is vital. She turns handsprings, plays with a parrot. She is not like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine manners destroy her piquant charm. She reverts to handsprings, to the parrot. It ends happily and is almost utterly devoid of sense or beauty...
Sirs: A suggestion-merely a suggestion : TIME'S style is piquant, ticklesome, unique. Of an evening, bored and sleepy, I pick it up for the sheer intellectual pins-and-needles it jabs into me-spurring to action ("Write that letter!"), inspiring to wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style...
Married. Captain Lowell H. Smith, "Magellan" of the aroundthe-world airplane flight in 1924; to Mrs. Madelaine C. Symington, in Los Angeles. Married. Louise Brooks, 18, piquant cinema ingenue (most recently seen in It's the Old Army Game, TIME, July 19, CINEMA), youthful veteran of George White's Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Louis the Fourteenth; to Edward Sutherland, cinema director, in Man- hattan. Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth...
...have no charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan, who sat on the U. S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. There was a piquant index to the course of U. S. legal history in the fact that, at the age (later twenties) at which his grandfather was sitting on a Kentucky county bench and running for Congress, the grandson was making a début? from the modern point of view a most auspicious...