Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scarlet Empress (Paramount) presents cinemaddicts with an opportunity to view the grandson of Massachusetts' late great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dressed up in a neck-length wig, quaint mustachios and Russian boots, making love to Marlene Dietrich. Two years ago, when he was a hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a job. Said Actor Lodge, whose previous dramatic experience had been confined...
...over the Fatherland last week tourists leaped to their feet at sound of the Nazi anthem, raised their right arms as Nazi banners passed. They knew that five U. S. tourists who spoke no German had been beaten by Storm Troopers in quaint old Nuremberg for standing motionless and puzzled when ordered in German to salute...
...quaint little story which has drifted up from Washington lately goes like this: At a recent Harvard Club dinner etc. there the first speaker was Tariff Commissioner Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91. Naturally enough the genial commissioner for lack of something better to say, perhaps, made a point of his great age and generally what an old bird he really was. The next speaker, a member of the class of '21, opened his remarks by saying that compared to Mr. O'Brien he was a more fledgling, etc. etc. Following this, our own James Roosevelt '30 got up to make...
...hunger strike before one Central Asian king would let him depart. An entire chapter is devoted to Ibn Battuta, sprig of a Tangerian family of judges who in the 14th Century visited every Moslem colony in the world. The sedately written narrative is spiced with many a quaint excerpt from the original chronicles, maps and reproductions of old engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus...
...HARVARD CRITIC: We have no report from this quaint brasserie. Rather indifferent entertainment...