Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stories are pleasant reading and evidence technique and training. Mr. LaVarre's tale of the night with the Bovianders is rich in local color, and resounds with the beating of barbaric drums, is redolent of gin, and in its portrayal of a quaint marriage ceremony is excellently conceived. By far the best work in the entire number is Mr. Spaulding's "Fancy." This is evidently the work of a man with no mean literary talent. Next year under the stimulus of competition from the Harvard Magazine, combined with the more liberal policy which Mr. Garrison is expected to inaugurate...
...gives the Major the front page for a picture, the editorial page for a bouquet and the only other page of prose for an interview. The editorial is a deft piece of work. It tells Major Flynn how glad, we are that he's here in a quaint but poignant fashion...
...welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...
Then there is Mr. Paulding's "Ogdensburg Carnival," brief, elaborate and grotesque. Mr. Paulding's senses have registered many quaint experiences, and his pen has at times achieved a mannered felicity...
...will wish to see it, partly for the memories it will revive and partly for the opportunity to see just what sort of an evening's entertainment "Gammer" will provide--she who lost her needle and made us laugh in spite of ourselves even while we were studying her quaint English and her charming verse text...