Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...
Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
Sweethearts (book by Harry B. Smith & Fred De Gresac, with revisions by John Cecil Holm; music & lyrics by Victor Herbert & Robert B. Smith; produced by Paula Stone & Michael Sloane) emerges after 33 years as a vehicle-a sort of quaint old hearse-for Bobby Clark. It belongs to the Balkan Age of operetta, when princes wooed village maids who eventually turned out to be princesses in disguise, and the most personal and private crises were resolved in the village square...
...sunshine state delegation, including Raymond Massey, whose son is registered here, "fell in love with Harvard's buildings and quaint atmosphere" during its tour, according to Boston Globe columnist Marjorie Adams. Whether University Hall will fall in love with this venture is still an open question, as Miss Howe's book purports to be the inside story of faculty social life. David M. Little '18, Secretary of the University, says that the first move is up to Hollywood...
Paepcke bought one of the old houses, soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...