Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write a play-by-play account of the Saturday games, or even discuss the strategy of the rival elevens, on Monday afternoon after all the others papers had done this. Thus it is that Mr. Carnes is driven to seeking boudoir interviews with the Crimson athletes, the recording of quaint statistics, and the unearthing of other...
...Holingshead volumes, of which there are two in the cases, are dated 1571 and 1577. They are filled with quaint woodcuts depicting chiefly battle seenes in which the earliest cannon figure. Printed in old English black letter, they are replete with marginal sub-titles, and bear on the title-page a solicitous "God save the Queene...
...numerous pitfalls in a modern production of such a play have been well avoided in the present instance. The trappings are subdued and beautiful with out being arty. The delivery and stage manner give the sense of being anthentic without being self consciously quaint The ridiculous twists that lie in wait for the archals in our day are reduced to a minimum. There is none of the vulgar and artificial that was found in "The Miracle...
...anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space...
Undergraduates who pass through the Johnston Gate between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls are very likely to think of these most venerable of Yard buildings as just two old structures, quaint and pleasant to look at perhaps, but hardly comparable for comfort or utility with newer edifices. Harvard contains a collection of musty classrooms, with desks and benches like the little red schoolhouse, cut deep with the initials of years of bored listeners to lectures. Remodeled Massachusetts houses Seniors in desirable rooms which are the object of nothing but envy on the part of the undergraduate...